Research
Macro partitioning
Globalization and economic policies favoring cheap fats, sugars, and fast food create an 'obesogenic environment' that drives obesity and diabetes rates, particularly among low-income populations.
Healthy food is often more expensive and less available than processed food due to global economic policies. Focus on community-level advocacy for better food access and policy changes, as individual choices are constrained by these systemic factors.
ModerateSupportsMEDIUM confidence
Global economic forces (ie, world trade policies favoring US corn production, international marketing of fast food, changes in physical activity in work, market-based changes in the availability of domestic products, media promotion of empty calories to children, etc) work synergistically together to produce the same effects—widespread obesity, diabetes, and heart disease in the developing world.
Why this rating
Based on observational data and policy analysis rather than controlled trials.
Source
Obesity and Diabetes in Vulnerable Populations: Reflection on Proximal and Distal Causes
Lucy M. Candib · The Annals of Family Medicine · 2007
DOI 10.1370/afm.754
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