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- Title
"We're Part of the Solution": Evolution of the Food and Beverage Industry's Framing of Obesity Concerns Between 2000 and 2012.
- Authors
Nixon, Laura; Mejia, Pamela; Cheyne, Andrew; Wilking, Cara; Dorfman, Lori; Daynard, Richard
- Abstract
We investigated how industry claim-makers countered concerns about obesity and other nutrition-related diseases in newspaper coverage from 2000, the year before the US Surgeon General's Call to Action on obesity, through 2012. We found that the food and beverage industry evolved in its response. The defense arguments were made by trade associations, industry-funded nonprofit groups, and individual companies representing the packaged food industry, restaurants, and the nonalcoholic beverage industry. Individual companies used the news primarily to promote voluntary self-regulation, whereas trade associations and industry-supported nonprofit groups directly attacked potential government regulations. There was, however, a shift away from framing obesity as a personal issue toward an overall message that the food and beverage industry wants to be "part of the solution" to the public health crisis.
- Subjects
UNITED States; OBESITY; BEVERAGE industry; PACKAGED foods industry; HISTORY of newspapers; UNITED States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General; DIET in disease; HISTORY; HISTORY of public health; PREVENTION of obesity; BEVERAGES; BUSINESS; FOOD industry; NEWSPAPERS; PUBLIC health; RESEARCH funding; SOCIAL role; RULES; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 2015, Vol 105, Issue 11, p2228
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.2015.302819