To Save Lives, Limit Salt In Processed Food
National and international health and medical associations recommend that companies that process food lower salt levels in their products to combat high blood pressure. While some countries are acting to lower salt levels, in the US, the salt industry objects.
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Strategic Alliance: Tools for Shifting the Food Debate Upstream
As more communities begin to question food and beverage industry influences on diet related disease, The Strategic Alliance helps local California groups to develop integrated campaigns that target both public policies and corporate practices that contribute to unhealthy diets.
Youth-Involved Street Survey of Health Messages in Urban Neighborhoods
In a 2007 pilot study, Corporations and Health Watch and youth researchers worked to examine whether the proportion of health-enhancing and health damaging messages differed in Manhattan neighborhoods of different socioeconocmis characteristics.
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As the US moves to limit consumption of sweetened beverages, producers focus on overseas markets and alternative product
Corporations and Health Watch takes a look at the response of the beverage industry to the proposed San Francisco tax on soda as well as declining markets in the United States. As Americans turn to alternative beverages,
beverage makers are increasingly focusing on the global south to promote their products.
Corporations, Health and the 2008 Presidential Elections: Following the Money
In a new series that will examine the 2008 Presidential election, we look at campaign contributions from Political Action Committees and individuals to the leading Republican and Democratic Presidential candidates.
Beyond Changing Lifestyle
Have you ever tried to convince someone that improving public health required more than simply changing individual behavior and lifestyle? To help make that case, social epidemiologist Sandro Galea argues for public health strategies that move beyond lifestyle to changing the social and political circumstances that influence behavioral choices.
Books on Corporations and Health, 2007
To help readers sort through the many books published each year on the impact of corporate practices on health, Corporations and Health Watch presents an idiosyncratic list of 10 books published in 2007 (or early 2008) that address the relationships among corporations, markets, government and health.
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