As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about Coca-Cola marketing to children, we want to bring your attention to this Food Navigator USA article which features William H Dietz, Md, PHD (former director of the Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) who admits that Big Food — the very companies that the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics partners with — has repeatedly thwarted federal efforts to curb junk food marketing to children.
Specifically, Dr. Dietz states that “commercial interests have consistently overridden the health concerns of children.”
Dr. Marion Nestle is also quoted in this Food Navigator article: “It’s hard to believe how thoroughly Congress is in bed with the food industry,” she says.
The main takeaways are that self-regulation does not work, and that this is one area where food policy needs be tough (and creative) to bring about much-needed reform.
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