“Big Food,” the Consumer Food Environment, Health, and the Policy Response in South Africa

In an article that forms part of the PLoS Medicine series on Big Food, Corinna Hawkes and colleagues provide a perspective from South Africa on the rise of multinational and domestic food companies, and argue that government should act urgently through education about the health risks of unhealthy d...

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Autores principales: Igumbor, Ehimario U., Sanders, David, Puoane, Thandi R., Tsolekile, Lungiswa, Schwarz, Cassandra, Purdy, Christopher, Swart, Rina, Durão, Solange, Hawkes, Corinna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Policy Forum
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3389030/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22802733
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001253
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author Igumbor, Ehimario U.
Sanders, David
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spelling pubmed-33890302012-07-16 “Big Food,” the Consumer Food Environment, Health, and the Policy Response in South Africa Igumbor, Ehimario U. Sanders, David Puoane, Thandi R. Tsolekile, Lungiswa Schwarz, Cassandra Purdy, Christopher Swart, Rina Durão, Solange Hawkes, Corinna PLoS Med Policy Forum In an article that forms part of the PLoS Medicine series on Big Food, Corinna Hawkes and colleagues provide a perspective from South Africa on the rise of multinational and domestic food companies, and argue that government should act urgently through education about the health risks of unhealthy diets, regulation of Big Food, and support for healthy foods. Public Library of Science 2012-07-03 /pmc/articles/PMC3389030/ /pubmed/22802733 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001253 Text en Igumbor et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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