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JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY
Volume 34, Issue 2, Pages 239-253Publisher
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN LTD
DOI: 10.1057/jphp.2013.9
Keywords
obesity; children; marketing; policy; consensus; prevention
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- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
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Obesity presents major challenges for public health and the evidence is strong. Lessons from tobacco control indicate a need for changing the policy and environments to make healthy choices easier and to create more opportunities for children to achieve healthy weights. In April 2011, the Alberta Policy Coalition for Chronic Disease Prevention convened a consensus conference on environmental determinants of obesity such as marketing of unhealthy foods and beverages to children. We examine the political environment, evidence, issues, and challenges of placing restrictions on marketing of unhealthy foods and beverages within Canada. We recommend a national regulatory system prohibiting commercial marketing of foods and beverages to children and suggest that effective regulations must set minimum standards, monitor compliance, and enact penalties for non-compliance.
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