Manufacturing Epidemics: The Role of Global Producers in Increased Consumption of Unhealthy Commodities Including Processed Foods, Alcohol, and Tobacco
By D. Stuckler, Martin McKee, Shah Ebrahim, Sanjay Basu. PLoS Medicine, 2012
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In an article that forms part of the PLoS Medicine series on Big Food, David Stuckler and colleagues report that unhealthy packaged foods are being consumed rapidly in low- and middle-income countries, consistent with rapid expansion of multinational food companies into emerging markets and fueling obesity and chronic disease epidemics.
Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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Citations in the corpus
- Ultra‐processed foods and the nutrition transition: Global, regional and national trends, food systems transformations and political economy drivers (2020, methodology): “systems in ways that alter the availability, price, nutritional quality, desirability and ultimately consumption of UPFs and beverages.(95,96,100,114,115)”
- Mortality from ischaemic heart disease by country, region, and age: Statistics from World Health Organisation and United Nations (2013, background): “…are sparse for many areas of the world e.g. Latin America, Africa that are likely to be incurring continued unfavourable trends in IHD mortality due to rapid urbanisation and the shifting focus of tobacco companies and processed food and drinks manufacturers to low-and-middle income regions [36].”
- Reducing the Global Burden of Cardiovascular Disease, Part 1: The Epidemiology and Risk Factors. (2017, background): “This is exacerbated by the impact of trade liberalization policies that increase imports of cheap junk foods and other harmful products.(109) In this regard, food manufacturing, agriculture, and trade policy will play a pivotal role in promoting healthy food consumption above health promotion strate”
- Ultra‐processed products are becoming dominant in the global food system (2013, background): “These show fast-growing sales of ‘packaged foods’ (a reasonable proxy for ultra-processed products) in lower-income countries, and identify and forecast static sales in high-income countries (12,23,24).”