To quell obesity, who should regulate food marketing to children 英文参考文献.docVIP

Globalization and Health BioMedCentral Editorial Open Access To quell obesity, who should regulate food marketing to children? Ben Kelly* Address: Public Health Advocacy Institute in Boston, MA, USA Email: Ben Kelly* - abenkelley@ * Corresponding author Published: 14 July 2005 Received: 25 June 2005 Accepted: 14 July 2005 Globalization and Health 2005, 1:9 doi:10.1186/1744-8603-1-9 This article is available from: /content/1/1/9 ? 2005 Kelly; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract The global hegemony of the United States in the production and marketing of food, while a marvel of economic success, has contributed to the epidemic of obesity that is particularly afflicting children. So far the U.S. government has declined to regulate the aggressive ways in which food producers market high-energy, low-nutrition foods to young people. That public-health responsibility has been left to an industry-created scheme of self-regulation that is deeply flawed; there is a compelling need for government involvement. The issue is certain to be raised by health advocates at a U.S. Federal Trade Commission meeting in mid-July to discuss the self-regulatory approach, but the outlook for remedies to emerge from the meeting is not encouraging. United States businesses have been unsurpassed leaders in proliferating the availability, marketing and consumption of high-energy, low-nutrition foods at home and around the world. Their aggressive, high-priced marketing of those foods has especially targeted children – the adult consumers of the future in whom the early creation of brand and product commitment is, in the eyes and ledgers of some huge corporations,