The perils of ignoring history: Big Tobacco played dirty and millions died. How similar is Big Food?

By K. Brownell, K. Warner. Milbank Quarterly, 2009

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Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention: Solving the Weight of the Nation (2012, positive): “Nevertheless, there are noteworthy similarities in the public policy strategies proposed to change the behavior of the food industry and in the countering strategies used by the industry (Brownell and Warner, 2009), suggesting that strategies to address obesity cannot be naïve.”
Corporate strategy, corporate capture: Food and alcohol industry lobbying and public health (2010, background): “Adult onset diabetes has been renamed type two diabetes because it no longer just affects adults, children as young as eight are being diagnosed with the condition (Brownell and Warner, 2009).”
Food cue reactivity and craving predict eating and weight gain: a meta-analytic review (2015, neutral): “Accordingly, this could support policy initiatives limiting television and print advertisements for energy dense products (144) as has been previously implemented for cigarettes (145,146).”