Obesity rates have reached epidemic proportions around the globe and especially Canada. Obesity carries the risk of … obtaining many other chronic diseases, such as cancer and type 2 diabetes. As a result, obesity carries a great economic burden … addressing rising child obesity rates in Alberta. This paper determined that a successful policy program would: (1) address …

Obesity is a global epidemic, exacting an enormous human and economic toll. In the absence of a comprehensive global … governance strategy, states have increasingly employed a wide array of legal strategies targeting the drivers of obesity. This … article identifies recent global trends in obesity-related legislation and makes the normative case for an updated global …

Obesity is an acute public health threat in Australia and carries serious health and economic costs. It is a complex … reform is critical to obesity policy due to its unique potential to alter the food environment and set the scene for … dominance of a conceptualisation of obesity tied to narrow notions of personal responsibility and free choice; and second, the …