Paid tobacco product placement in movies, and the TV and radio commercials were eventually banned. How did it affect the Americans’ tolerance for smoking?

Campaigns that promote healthy eating and exercise may be counterproductive. Those programs should instead educate kids as to why they overeat, and how to cope.

The proposed Harvest Box program for SNAP recipients was widely criticized as a “solution without a problem.”

Some of the suggested obesity causes stem from international trade policies that form the global food system, the market economy, and agricultural policies.

It doesn’t matter how much food might be available if people can’t afford to buy it or don’t have a way to bring the food from where it is to their homes.

How Portland, Oregon, addressed the issue of food deserts is a striking example of what a city can do when it puts its mind to a task.

When it comes to food deserts in major cities, there are problems that have solutions, and there are solutions that have problems.

If customers want fresh produce, why are the owners of groceries and convenience stores not stocking it already, out of sheer self-interest?

Many cities have made all-encompassing plans to address their food desert dilemmas. A massive one was conceived some years back by the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability (BPS) in Portland, Oregon. The document began by saying, “This project consider …

There is debate about whether living in a food desert is associated with unhealthy eating and food buying practices.

Food is widely available even in the most depressed and oppressed neighborhoods, but it’s likely to be high-calorie, processed pseudo-food.

The child obesity epidemic in the U.S. seems to have taken a back seat. In the U.K., however, dedicated warriors continue to try and stop the enablers.

Coca-Cola Co. and others in the beverage industry are under criticism for not doing enough to reduce sugar in drinks and many other reasons.

Coca-Cola Co. has a longstanding practice of paying dietitians to tout the benefits of high-sugar beverages, while not even all disclose who is sponsoring them.

Corporate philanthropy provides an enormous amount of respectable cover for transactions that closely resemble bribery.

From all appearances, it looks like soda corporations are not helping public health one bit, despite the lucrative sponsorships they grant.

As agencies lose their funding, Coke and other industry players are encouraging the government to do less and less in the way of either research or policing.

Whatever the soda industry is doing, it’s working. Kids in the U.K. (between ages 7 and 15) spend more money on soda than they do on games, toys, and hobbies.

Brenda Fitzgerald, the former Public Heath Commissioner of Georgia and head of CDC, had owned stock in several tobacco companies, resulting in her resignation.

The Campaign to End Obesity brings together the leaders from academia, public health, industry, and the legislators, to help reverse the obesity epidemic.

More than one-third of the candy sold in England is bought on impulse. Needless to say, the industry wants no more laws or taxes.

The food industry and the retail establishment are active enablers of obesity, and this is an enormous philosophical and political issue.

In the U.K., many worried people want to do something to curb the power of the food and drink industries, whose ability to bend young minds is legendary.

In what has been called a “rarely used budget maneuver,” CHIP’s contingency fund was rescinded, resulting in an uncertain future for the program.

Following in the footsteps of the previous two posts, this one looks at government agencies that are in danger of reduced funding or worse.

Some CDC-related obesity prevention programs have either already been impoverished or are potentially endangered by the federal budget cuts.

A number of CDC’s programs concerned with obesity might soon be on the federal government budget chopping block, if they are not already.

The CSPI says that Coke and the American Beverage Association have spent a lot of money to attack any science that connects the dots between SSBs and obesity.

According to some studies the differences in obesity prevalence between the U.K.’s most and least deprived areas has gotten worse.

The anti-obesity debate rages on in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, including health and fitness of public school students.