Guess what’s for dinner tonight? The role of packaged food and soft drinks in global obesity

The percentage of population suffering from overweight or obesity is increasing worldwide, both in developed and developing countries, and for all subpopulations of age and gender (although data on the incidence of those problems seem to differ somewhat across sources of estimates. This paper attemp...

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Autores principales: Paz, Florencia, Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio
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Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143651
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description The percentage of population suffering from overweight or obesity is increasing worldwide, both in developed and developing countries, and for all subpopulations of age and gender (although data on the incidence of those problems seem to differ somewhat across sources of estimates. This paper attempts to shed some light on a specific debate: the role of consumption of different types of packaged foods and soft drinks on obesity trends. The paper is organized as follows. First, there is a discussion of other studies on drivers of obesity that can help to better frame the analysis in this paper. Second, we present the data utilized and the econometric approach utilized. Third, we present the results. A final section concludes.
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spelling CGSpace1436512025-11-06T07:00:55Z Guess what’s for dinner tonight? The role of packaged food and soft drinks in global obesity Paz, Florencia Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio models gender nutrient intake processed foods soft drinks econometric models food consumption diet overweight obesity The percentage of population suffering from overweight or obesity is increasing worldwide, both in developed and developing countries, and for all subpopulations of age and gender (although data on the incidence of those problems seem to differ somewhat across sources of estimates. This paper attempts to shed some light on a specific debate: the role of consumption of different types of packaged foods and soft drinks on obesity trends. The paper is organized as follows. First, there is a discussion of other studies on drivers of obesity that can help to better frame the analysis in this paper. Second, we present the data utilized and the econometric approach utilized. Third, we present the results. A final section concludes. 2020-04-01 2024-05-22T12:15:47Z 2024-05-22T12:15:47Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143651 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Paz, Flor; and Diaz-Bonilla, Eugenio. 2020. Guess what’s for dinner tonight? The role of packaged food and soft drinks in global obesity. LAC Working Paper 7. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133770.
spellingShingle models
gender
nutrient intake
processed foods
soft drinks
econometric models
food consumption
diet
overweight
obesity
Paz, Florencia
Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio
Guess what’s for dinner tonight? The role of packaged food and soft drinks in global obesity
title Guess what’s for dinner tonight? The role of packaged food and soft drinks in global obesity
title_full Guess what’s for dinner tonight? The role of packaged food and soft drinks in global obesity
title_fullStr Guess what’s for dinner tonight? The role of packaged food and soft drinks in global obesity
title_full_unstemmed Guess what’s for dinner tonight? The role of packaged food and soft drinks in global obesity
title_short Guess what’s for dinner tonight? The role of packaged food and soft drinks in global obesity
title_sort guess what s for dinner tonight the role of packaged food and soft drinks in global obesity
topic models
gender
nutrient intake
processed foods
soft drinks
econometric models
food consumption
diet
overweight
obesity
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