Junk food and heart disease: the missing tooth

Junk DNA holds clues to heart disease

Deleting a non-coding region leads to narrowing of arteries in mice. Janet Fang The risk of developing a form of heart disease has been linked to a region of junk DNA. Researchers have made headway in working out why a section of junk DNA — the 98% or so of the genome that does not code for proteins — raises the risk of at least one form of heart disease. About one in five deaths in the United ...

Junk food thoughts.

The Effects of Banning Junk Food Advertising

We develop a structural model to analyze the effect of banning advertising on market equilibria and welfare in junk food markets. We consider the impact on demand and prices, and we show how to quantify welfare effects when advertising might lead consumers to take decisions that are inconsistent with their underlying preferences. We use transaction level data on the potato chips market and find...

The effects of junk-food on teenagers

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...