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Increasing Water Affordability Through State Sales Tax Policy on Home Water Filter Pitchers and Replacement Cartridges
…online purchase of a water filter product via a commercial retailer website (e.g., Amazon.com, Walmart.com). Point-of-entry water systems (whole house filtration) will not be included in this study. Sales tax…
Special Issue on School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study-I: Findings Related to Improving Diet Quality, Weight, and Disparities in U.S. Children
…journal Nutrients. The papers address urgent policy challenges related to food security, childhood obesity, sugar consumption, and racial and ethnic disparities when it comes to healthy meals. The 15 papers…
The Associations Between Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption and Children’s Health: An Updated Review of the Literature
…and other negative health consequences. More research is needed related to substitution and taste preferences. The BMC Obesity review is available at: https://bmcobes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40608-017-0178-9 Bleich SN, Vercammen KA. The negative impact…
Issue Brief. The Associations Between Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption and Children’s Health: An Updated Review of the Literature
…needed related to substitution and taste preferences. The BMC Obesity review, on which this research review and issue brief are based, is available at: https://bmcobes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40608-017-0178-9 Bleich SN, Vercammen KA. The…
Front-of-Package Food Labeling: Global Adoption, Implementation, and Challenges
…Plazas (Colombia) – Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá & National University of Colombia View the recording here Resources shared during the webinar: Mexico implementation: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/public-health-nutrition/article/implementing-frontofpack-nutrition-warning-labels-in-mexico-important-lessons-for-low-and-middleincome-countries/76960F4ACAC11351CD0FE7AAEA3598DE Chile evaluations: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-51962100172-8/fulltext https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37016430/ https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1003220 https://ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12966-023-01454-w…
Feeding Guidelines for Infants and Young Toddlers: A Responsive Parenting Approach
Early life diet and feeding behaviors play an important role in establishing healthy food preferences and behaviors and are crucial for preventing childhood overweight and obesity. This report presents evidence-based…
Beverages
…drinking water is not equitable. Research in this area evaluates strategies to increase access to and consumption of healthy beverages and decrease access to and consumption of unhealthy beverages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRiKNaft7is…
The Effects of Soft Drink Taxes on Child and Adolescent Consumption and Weight Outcomes
In this paper the authors investigate the potential for soft drink taxes to combat the rise in child and adolescent obesity levels through a reduction in consumption. Using state soft…
Economies of Size in Production Agriculture
The concept of economies of size refers to the ability to lower cost of production by increasing production. This article discusses economies of size in production agriculture and the consequences…