Invitation to participate in the obesity epidemic
In this call for participation, And we encourage authors to submit articles look at how to change the behavior Food Industries
. Here's why.Since we published the legal approaches to the section on the obesity
epidemic of the Institute for Public Health Advocacy in the January
2004 Journal participated fully in the discussions on all aspects of
obesity and policies- Its causes and how to prevent it. Obesity is certainly a cost
- A global phenomenon, seen in low-income, as well as rich countries. Often coexist with hunger and malnutrition.What are the basic root of obesity and its consequences for public health reasons?We know that each country's policies almost created to prepare for Outgun famine and food shortages that could hurt their people and hamper their economies and social fabric. In 2010, Russia banned wheat exports when it was destroyed due to bad weather crops.
The United States government, since in the last century in the early and supported the production of food through subsidies and other policies, which led to large surpluses of food commodities and meat, and calories. These policies to maintain food prices at artificially low levels has reduced the proportion of personal income spent on food to the lowest in the world. In the industrial market, large food companies and producers- A great big agriculture and food - has become very profitable. The first group of countries to experience economic concentration, starting before the Great Depression - the United States, Japan, China and some countriesEast Asia, and countries in Europe - found that just a few companies came to dominate every part of the food industry. These companies are integrated vertically to the point whereNow they own, increasing the profitability of each step in the production chain from the farm to the wholesale distribution of processed foods. In the last 40 years in the United States,
For example, before the companies means that the number of pig farms owned separately dropped by about 75 per cent, and only four per cent of the millions of pigs that Canada and the United States
