Is Fast Food Making Us Fat?

Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?

Unnatural Causes, a documentary series scheduled for release this fall, will present for the first time on American television an investigation of the sources of our huge and alarming socioeconomic and racial disparities in health. The seven-part, 4-hour documentary series will be available on DVD from California Newsreel (www.newsreel. org) and will be broadcast in the United States by Public ...

"Big Food" Is Making America Sick.

Fast food/organic food: reflexive tastes and the making of ‘yuppie chow’

translations Bouffe-éclair/bouffe biologique: goûts réflexifs et laproduction de ‘bouffe yuppie’ La consommation de produits biologiques n’estqu’un des nombreux courants dans le domaine ali-mentaire perçus comme une forme d’opposition à laproduction industrielle d’aliments. Alors que larestauration rapide est caractérisée par des habitudescompulsives résultant en des cor...

Does food marketing need to make us fat? A review and solutions

Food marketing is often singled out as the leading cause of the obesity epidemic. The present review examines current food marketing practices to determine how exactly they may be influencing food intake, and how food marketers could meet their business objectives while helping people eat healthier. Particular attention is paid to the insights provided by recently published studies in the areas...

Is COVID-19 Infection Transmitted Through Food?

 Coronavirus disease (COVID) has had a growing outbreak around the world. China reported COVID-19 infection for the first time in December 2019. Symptoms of this disease often include respiratory symptoms, but gastrointestinal symptoms (nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea) were also reported in COVID-19 infection. Coronavirus transmits through direct droplets, contact, or fomites. However, other mod...