The Economist's special report on obesity cites research by CPC Fellow Popkin
Dec 17, 2012
The
December 15th issue of The Economist features a special report on obesity.
The report includes ten articles and two of the articles reference work by Carolina
Population Center Fellow Barry Popkin.
The
big picture: The world is getting wider, says Charlotte Howard. What can be
done about it?
"Not long ago the
world's main worry was that people had too little to eat. Malnourishment
remains a serious concern in some regions: some 16% of the world's children,
mainly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, were underweight in 2010. But 20
years earlier the figure was 24%. In a study of 36 developing countries, based
on data from 1992 to 2000, Barry Popkin of the University of North Carolina
found that most of them had more overweight than underweight women."
The study is Mendez, Michelle A., Carlos Augusto Monteiro, and Barry M. Popkin. 2005. Overweight Exceeds Underweight among Women in Most Developing Countries. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 81 (3):714-21.
Food
for thought: Food companies play an ambivalent part in the fight against flab
"So far, promises to make products
healthier and limit advertising have helped fend off legislation, but not
everyone is happy about that. "No place in the world have we had
self-regulation shown to be successful at solving the issue," says Barry Popkin
of the University of North Carolina."
The Economist's special report on Obesity includes these articles:
