Research
Mixed
Public health strategies targeting the obesogenic environment (e.g., SSB taxes, zoning, produce prescriptions) are necessary to support individual weight management efforts, as individual lifestyle advice is undermined by environmental factors.
Individual willpower is not enough in an environment designed to promote obesity. Support public health policies like sugar taxes, zoning for healthy food access, and produce prescription programs. These environmental changes make healthy choices easier and more affordable.
ModerateQualifiesMEDIUM confidence
recommended interventions can be counteracted or undermined by the obesogenic environment. Thus, despite decades of advice to adopt healthy eating patterns... the Healthy Eating Index (HEI) score 2020... was only 58/100... The importance of tackling the obesogenic environment is reflected in recommendations 2–4 of the TFAH obesity 2023 report (39).
Why this rating
Supported by observational data and policy recommendations, but some interventions (like supermarket placement) have mixed evidence.
Source
Tackling the complexity of obesity in the US through adaptation of public health strategies
Jamy D. Ard et al. · Frontiers in Public Health · 2025
DOI 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1477401
narrative_reviewCited 5×
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