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Herington, Jonathan, Dawson, Angus and Draper, Heather (2014) Obesity, liberty, and public health emergencies. Hastings Center Report, 44 (6). pp. 26-35. doi:10.1002/hast.350 ISSN 00930334.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hast.350
Abstract
Widespread obesity poses a serious challenge to health outcomes in the developed world and is a growing problem in the developing world. There has been a raft of proposals to combat the challenge of obesity, including restrictions on the nature of food advertising, the content of prepared meals, and the size of sodas; taxes on saturated fat and on calories; and mandated “healthy-options” on restaurant menus. Many of these interventions seem to have a greater impact on rates of obesity than does simply providing information about health risks and healthier lifestyles. The more interventionist policy options have, however, been implemented only slowly, in large part because of criticisms that they are unjustified infringements on the liberty of consumers. Food industry groups, free-market think tanks, and the popular press regard measures that incentivize or penalize particular food and lifestyle choices as unjustifiable state regulation of purely self-regarding behavior.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Social Science & Systems in Health (SSSH) Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Hastings Center Report | ||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley | ||||||
| ISSN: | 00930334 | ||||||
| Official Date: | November 2014 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 44 | ||||||
| Number: | 6 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 26-35 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1002/hast.350 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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