https://padlet.com/nsbjenna/JENNA Made with Emotion, Credibility, and Logic en-us 2017-03-29 20:37:33 UTC 2017-03-30 20:08:48 UTC hello@padlet.com nsbjenna https://padlet.com/nsbjenna/JENNA/wish/163551535 “Marketing of food and beverages is associated with increasing obesity rates and is especially effective among children,” they wrote. Dr. Gortmaker pointed out that “very few children are born obese,” but most American children grow up in an obesogenic environment.

]]> 2017-03-29 20:42:16 UTC https://padlet.com/nsbjenna/JENNA/wish/163551535 nsbjenna https://padlet.com/nsbjenna/JENNA/wish/163551682  Dr. Gortmaker and his co-authors noted, “Almost all food policies recommended as priority actions, including front-of-pack traffic light labeling, have been heavily contested by the food industry."]]> 2017-03-29 20:43:00 UTC https://padlet.com/nsbjenna/JENNA/wish/163551682 nsbjenna https://padlet.com/nsbjenna/JENNA/wish/163551882  Of course, the rising overweight and obesity rate is not just an American problem. The effect is being seen globally, even in low- and middle-income countries. This month the United Nations General Assembly will focus on noncommunicable diseases, with the “wicked problem” (as Brian Head, a social scientist at the University of Queensland in Australia, put it) of the global obesity epidemic front and center.]]> 2017-03-29 20:44:04 UTC https://padlet.com/nsbjenna/JENNA/wish/163551882