From childhood obesity risk to healthy growth in the U.S.: A 10-year social work research & policy update

Public Policies on Obesity: A Literature Review of Global Challenges and Response Strategies

“…In addition, some countries like Chile, Canada, and Brazil have adopted pre-package nutrition labeling to help consumers make healthy choices [36]. Chile was the first country to implement warning labels for foods containing calories, sugar, saturated fat, or sodium above certain thresholds [36]. Similar warning labels are being introduced in Canada, Brazil, and Uruguay.…”

Exploring the longitudinal associations between census division income inequality and BMI trajectories among Canadian adolescent: Is gender an effect modifier?

“…Despite widespread consensus that the drivers of weight-related health disparities are complex and multifactorial ( Nobles, Summerbell, Brown, Jago, & Moore, 2021 ), a large proportion of existing research, policy, and interventions focus on individual behaviours and predictors ( Ramos Salas, Forhan, Caulfield, Sharma, & Raine, 2017 ; Schuler, Vazquez, & O’Reilly, 2023 ). A Cochrane Review of 153 randomized control trials assessing interventions for preventing obesity in children found that the majority of interventions (n = 140, 57.9%) targeted individual lifestyle factors, and that this individual-level focus has persisted relatively unchanged despite the limited effectiveness of these interventions alone in preventing childhood obesity.…”