Identifying best practices in junk food taxation and other food policies: Selected examples and their assessment

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Healthy Food Procurement Policies and Their Impact

Unhealthy eating is the leading risk for death and disability globally. As a result, the World Health Organization (WHO) has called for population health interventions. One of the proposed interventions is to ensure healthy foods are available by implementing healthy food procurement policies. The objective of this systematic review was to evaluate the evidence base assessing the impact of such...

Junk Food Consumption among High School Students in Iran: The Role of Food Advertising

Introduction: Adolescence is one of the most important periods of human development. Nutrition plays an important role in health and prevention of disease during this period. Food advertising influences food purchase and food consumption among children and adolescents. Most of these advertisements are about the foods high in fat, salt and sugar. High exposure to these kinds of a...

Food Safety Practices in COVID-19 Pandemic

This article has no abstract. DOI: 10.18502/jfqhc.7.3.4142

Let Them Eat Junk: Capitalism and Food

Rob Albritton’s Let Them Eat Junk: How Capitalism Creates Hunger and Obesity (2009), published by Arbeiter Ring Press in Canada, and Pluto Press in the UK, offers a welcome and urgently needed analysis of “how the profit fixation of capital has led us deeply into a dangerously unsustainable system of food provision, a system that totally fails when it comes to distributive justice and to human ...