BACKGROUND High participation rates in sport and increasing recognition of how diet benefits athletic performance suggest sports settings may be ideal locations for promoting healthy eating. While research has demonstrated the effect of tobacco and alcohol sponsorship on consumption, particularly among youth, few studies have examined the extent or impact of food and beverage company sponsorshi...

BACKGROUND The tobacco industry claims that illicit trade in cigarettes has increased sharply since the 1990s and that government has lost substantial tax revenue. OBJECTIVES (1) To determine whether cigarette excise tax revenue has been below budget in recent years, compared with previous decades. (2) To determine trends in the size of the illicit market since 1995. METHODS For (1), mean p...

Creating a portfolio is one of the mainstream ways for investors to avoid risks. This paper focuses on Chinese investment market, and selects six different industries in A-shares, which are preferred by investors, i.e., real estate industry, food beverage energy medicine finance industry retail industry. selected representative assets from these analysis. closing price data past year, simulates...

r p c Foodmarketing has never been more important, as childhood obesity rates remain high, and food and beverage marketing takes on ever new and more ophisticated forms. Yet despite strong recommendaions from the IOM, there has been little progress to ddress it, as Kraak et al. demonstrate in their paper in this issue of theAmerican Journal of PreventiveMedicine. In 2006, the IOM threw down the...

Nowadays Unicer can improve its tactical distribution planning decisions and study several alternative scenarios for its supply strategies and network configuration thanks to an operations research driven process. In this paper we present the decision support system responsible for this new methodology in the major Portuguese beverage company. At the core of this system there is a mathematical ...

Purpose: A growing need for global sourcing of business has subjected firms to higher levels of uncertainty and increased risk of supply disruption. Differences in industry and infrastructure make it more difficult for firms to manage supply disruption risks effectively. This study aims to extend developing research in this area by addressing gaps within existing literature related to environme...

Alcohol consumption and alcohol-attributable burden of disease in Africa are expected to rise in the near future, yet. increasing alcohol-related harm receives little attention from policymakers and from the population in general. Even where new legislation is proposed it is rarely enacted into law. Being at the center of social and cultural activities in many countries, alcohol's negative role...