The Role of Corporate Influence in the Obesity Epidemic
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2020-05-04

Like the tobacco industry adding extra nicotine, the food industry employs taste engineers to accomplish a similar goal: maximize the irresistibility of their products. What effect may this have on weight gain and the obesity epidemic?

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Are you mad yet? Here in an election year, let us all reflect on how important campaign finance reform is in removing the Big Food stranglehold industry has on our body politic. To sum up my answer to the question underlying this entire webinar, What Triggered the Obesity Epidemic? The answer? It’s the food. I close next with my wrap-up video: The Role of the Toxic Food Environment in the Obesity Epidemic (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-role-of-the-toxic-food-environment-in-the-obesity-epidemic).

Here are the rest if you missed any:
• The Role of Diet vs. Exercise in the Obesity Epidemic (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-role-of-diet-vs-exercise-in-the-obesity-epidemic)
• The Role of Genes in the Obesity Epidemic (https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/the-role-of-genes-in-the-obesity-epidemic)
• The Thrifty Gene Theory: Survival of the Fattest (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-thrifty-gene-theory-survival-of-the-fattest)
• Cut the Calorie-Rich-And-Processed Foods (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/cut-the-calorie-rich-and-processed-foods)
• The Role of Processed Foods in the Obesity Epidemic (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-role-of-processed-foods-in-the-obesity-epidemic)
• The Role of Taxpayer Subsidies in the Obesity Epidemic (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-role-of-taxpayer-subsidies-in-the-obesity-epidemic)
• The Role of Marketing in the Obesity Epidemic (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-role-of-marketing-in-the-obesity-epidemic)
• The Role of Food Advertisements in the Obesity Epidemic (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-role-of-food-advertisements-in-the-obesity-epidemic)
• The Role of Personal Responsibility in the Obesity Epidemic (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-role-of-personal-responsibility-in-the-obesity-epidemic)

If the political angle interests, I’ve got a bunch of other such videos:
• Big Food Using the Tobacco Industry Playbook (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/big-food-using-the-tobacco-industry-playbook)
• How Smoking in 1959 Is Like Eating in 2020 (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-smoking-in-the-50s-is-like-eating-today/)
• Sugar Industry Attempts to Manipulate the Science (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/sugar-industry-attempts-to-manipulate-the-science)
• The Food Industry Wants the Public Confused About Nutrition (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-food-industry-wants-the-public-confused-about-nutrition/)
• A Political Lesson on the Power of the Food Industry (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/a-political-lesson-on-the-power-of-the-food-industry)

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-Michael Greger, MD FACLM

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