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McDonald's; Burger King; Wendy’s; Coca-Cola; Pepsi; Mountain Dew; PopTart; M&M; Pizza Hut; Cheetos; Taco Bell; Oreos; and more....
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Many national studies have reported the effects
of the Big Fat Industries™ and the severity of the obesity
epidemic.
October 19, 2007
"By any other name, it's still a supersize | Fast-food portions keep getting bigger, but you might not know it"
By Lisa R. Young, Ph.D, R.D., MSNBC 'Fast-food restaurants may brag about their premium salads and apple fries, but for all the healthier items they've added to menus, portion bloat is bigger than ever.'
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October 12, 2007
"‘Healthy’ Food, Unhealthy Choices?"
By Nathan Sermonis, The Cornell Daily Sun 'New research by Cornell’s Prof. Brian Wansink, director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab, shows that dining at “healthy” fast food restaurants may not be as beneficial as advertised, often leading to poor eating habits. Despite a growing health conscience in America, two-thirds of the national population is considered overweight according the National Center for Health Statistics. Wansink’s research may help to explain one of the reasons behind this perplexing paradox.'
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September 12, 2007
"Bigger Brains, Better Genes"
By Dean Ornish, M.D., Newsweek, Inc. 'Believe it or not, those are among the benefits of exercising more and eating healthier.'
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August 27, 2007
"Kids' tastes run to brands they know best"
By Chelsea Martinez, Los Angeles Times 'Children develop lifelong food preferences at a very young age -- before they can distinguish between ads and facts. Now a study has added to the controversy about advertising to them, with child psychologists saying the findings support the need for government restrictions on ads targeted at children.'
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June 8, 2007
"Regular consumption of sugary drinks promotes obesity in preschoolers"
ABC Inc. 'There is another warning to parents who give sugary drinks to preschoolers.
A new study finds children who regularly consume these drinks between meals are more likely to be overweight than their peers. '
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May 17, 2007
"Is Online Marketing Making Kids Obese?"
By Catherine Holahan , BusinessWeek 'Gabrielle Ayala, 10, takes good care of her virtual pet. She diligently logs online to Neopets.com to feed the cat-like creature ice cream, omelets, smoothies, jellies, and baked goods. For Gabrielle, the Web site is about fun. Some marketers, however, see such online kids communities as an opportunity to associate "fun" with snack foods from the likes of McDonalds (MCD), Kellogg's (K), Kraft Foods (KFT), and others.'
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May 17, 2007
"Protecting kids from online food ads"
By Stefanie Olsen, Company 'A Washington-based advocacy group is urging new government regulations
that would limit how food marketers can advertise to children in digital environments, with the hope of
chipping away at childhood obesity rates in the United States. The Center for Digital Democracy has written
a 98-page report on the practices of food marketers on cell phones, digital video, social networks, games
and virtual worlds.'
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April 12, 2007
"The fast-food capital of America"
By Matthew Boyle, CNNMoney.com 'An annual report tracks which U.S. cities have the greatest percentage of 'heavy users' of fast food. Oklahoma City has the dubious distinction of consistently topping the list, says Fortune's Matthew Boyle.'
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March 28, 2007
"U.S. Kids Bombarded By TV Food Ads"
By Eve Conant, Newsweek 'American kids are watching a staggering number of TV ads for candy and junk food, according to a new report by the Kaiser Family Foundation. In the largest study of its kind to track the magnitude and content of television food advertising that targets children, researchers looked at 1,638 hours of programming and analyzed nearly 9,000 food and beverage ads. They found that none of the food advertisements targeted to kids were for fruits or vegetables, and more than half the ads they saw were for candy, snacks or fast food.'
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March 28, 2007
"New Study Finds That Food is the Top Product Seen Advertised by Children - Among All Children, Tweens See the Most Food Ads at More than 20 a Day"
Press Release, Kaiser Family Foundation 'As the fight against childhood obesity escalates, the issue of food advertising to children has come under increasing scrutiny. Policymakers in Congress, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and agencies such as the Institute of Medicine (IOM) have called for changes in the advertising landscape, and U.S. food and media industries are developing their own voluntary initiatives related to advertising food to children. To help inform this debate, the Kaiser Family Foundation today released the largest study ever conducted of TV food advertising to children.'
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March 05, 2007
"Diet sodas don't help in battle with obesity"
By Nasiha Muna, The Huntsville Times 'With teen obesity on the rise, a lot of focus has landed on soft drinks. They have no nutritional content yet have a large amount of calories.
Colas also contain carbonated water, high-fructose corn syrup or sucrose, caramel color, phosphoric acid and natural flavors.'
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December 29, 2006
"Kids' Bring Out Fat-Filled Diets for Elders"
By Crystal Phend, MedPage Today Children may be a bad influence on adults' diets, researchers here found.
Adults living with children ate an entire pepperoni pizza-worth of extra fat and saturated fat each week
compared with adults in a child-free home, according to Helena Laroche, M.D., of the University of Iowa,
and colleagues.
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December 13, 2006
"Study finds allowing fast food in kids' hospitals sends mixed message to families"
Associated Press, KOTV, A Griffin Communications, LLC Subsidiary ' Having fast-food restaurants in children's hospitals influences patients' families to eat fast food and to think that it's relatively healthy, new research suggests.'
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October 17, 2006
"Profiles Of The U.S. Food Shopper:" New 135-page research report from Mona Doyle's Consumer Network Panel & EPM "
By Ira Mayer, EPM Communications, Inc. 'New York, NY—Americans and food. There are few
relationships that cause as much agita for consumers—and for the retailers and marketers trying
to reach them. From the obesity epidemic to the epidemic of choice, from the demands for healthier
items to the time constraints that are keeping Americans from preparing their own meals, the
oftentimes contradictory relationship between Americans and food is rapidly reshaping the way
we shop for our most basic needs.
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September 19, 2006
"Study Finds Schools Expose Children to Junk Food Advertising"
www.healthinschools.org
'Through a combination of sponsorships, incentive programs, and “appropriation of space,”
public schools currently expose between 26.6 million and 30.3 million students to
advertising of foods of minimal nutritional value or foods high in fat and sugar,
according to a study conducted by the Commercialism in Education Research Unit at
Arizona State University.'
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August 9, 2006
"Soda Is A Chief
Culprit In The Obesity Epidemic"
By Dr. David Marks, M.D., CBS Broadcasting.
'Believe it or not, scientists have been studying soda for 40 years. Here's what they've
come up with: Slurping down soft drinks seems to coincide with the growing obesity epidemic.'
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August 9, 2006
"Obesity
studies continue to stir the soft-drink debate"
By Nanci Hellmich, USA TODAY.
'Soft drinks and other sugary beverages contribute to weight gain and obesity, according
to a new review of research on the subject.'
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August 10, 2006
"Study
Finds Parental Time to be Key in Fight Against Childhood Obesity"
By Linda
Anderson and Blair Fannin for Agricultural Communications, -Texas A&M University System.
'The fight against obesity in children just got a new weapon, thanks to a multi-year
study by researchers from Texas A&M University. The study found that the amounts and
quality of time parents spent with their children has a direct effect on children's
rates of obesity, said Dr. Alex McIntosh, lead researcher. McIntosh is professor of
sociology with a research appointment from Texas Agricultural Experiment Station.'
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August 4, 2006
"US
consumers convinced they follow 'healthy' diets"
www.foodnavigator-usa.com.
'More than four out of five Americans characterize their eating habits as either "very
healthy" or "somewhat healthy" despite soaring obesity rates, according to a new survey.'
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August 2, 2006
"U.S. Eating
Habits Still Favor Value and Convenience" www.AMonline.com.
'Studying what and how people choose to eat while dining out reveals important
nutritional attitudes and trends. To stay informed, Aramark Corp. annually conducts
more than 5,000 online interviews to discover Americans' away-from-home dining habits
and nutritional preferences.'
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June 27, 2006
"Study
Suggests 10 New Obesity Causes"
CBSnews.com, (WebMD). 'Obesity isn't all about eating
and inactivity, says an international group of researchers.' |
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June 26, 2006
"Obesity
talk is food for thought"
By Sheena McFarland, The Salt Lake Tribune. 'Parents
are expected to talk to their kids about sex, drinking and
drugs, but one subject remains taboo: weight. A study shows
that the majority of parents feel they have to choose between
having a loving relationship with their child or talking to
them about their weight issues.' |
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May 23, 2006
"Poverty
May Increase Teen Obesity Risk"
Foxnews.com.
'Older teens living in poverty may be more likely to be overweight
than their peers from wealthier families, a new study shows.' |
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May 20, 2006
"High
Benzene Levels Found In Some Soft Drinks"
Medical News Today. 'According to a sample of 100
drinks, the FDA found that 5 had benzene levels over the 5
parts per billion limit set for drinking water. In fact, one
of them, Safeway Select Diet Orange, had 79 parts per billion.
Human consumption of benzene is linked to a higher risk of
developing leukaemia.' |
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May 17, 2006
"Youth
study sounds obesity alarm"
Toledoblade.com
'Four in 10 Ohio third graders weigh too much. That's the finding
- which likely won't surprise many parents or schoolteachers
- of a first-of-its-kind study involving thousands of Ohio
third graders. The study found four in 10 of the youngsters
are overweight or "at risk of being overweight."' |
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May 2006
"US
states underestimate obesity problem"
Journal of the Royal
Society of Medicine, 'The obesity problem in individual
US states appears much greater than official health surveys have
indicated, according to a new study.' |
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May 04, 2006
"Obesity
levels in U.S. are grossly underestimated"
Harvard University
Gazette, 'The prevalence of obesity in the United
States has been greatly underestimated. Researchers at the Harvard
School of Public Health (HSPH) analyzed data from health surveys,
which are used to estimate obesity levels in states...' |
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"A
Nation At Risk: Obesity in the United States - A Statistical Sourcebook"
American Heart Association and American Stroke Association, funded
by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. A wealth of obeisty-related
statistics and information. |
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"Overweight
Children: Is Parental Nutrition Knowledge a Factor?"
Jayachandran
N. Variyam, Food Review, Vol. 24, Issue 2. This study focuses
on the correlation between parental nutritional knowledge and
overweight children. |
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"Childhood
Obesity: A Societial Problem to Solve"
M.B. Schwartz and R. Puhl, The International Association for
the Study of Obesity, Obesity Reviews, Vol. 4, Issue 1,
p. 57-71. This study analyzes
the issue of childhood obesity as a societal problem, rather
than an individual problem. |
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