Marketing Takes Off and Obesity Soars 

Marketing Takes Off and Obesity Soars 

The unprecedented rise in the power, scope, and sophistication of food marketing starting around 1980 aligns well with the blastoff slope of the obesity epidemic. In the 1970s, the U.S. government went from just subsidizing some of the worst foods to paying companies...
Marketing Takes Off and Obesity Soars 

Marketing Takes Off and Obesity Soars 

The unprecedented rise in the power, scope, and sophistication of food marketing starting around 1980 aligns well with the blastoff slope of the obesity epidemic. In the 1970s, the U.S. government went from just subsidizing some of the worst foods to paying companies...
Marketing Takes Off and Obesity Soars 

Marketing Takes Off and Obesity Soars 

The unprecedented rise in the power, scope, and sophistication of food marketing starting around 1980 aligns well with the blastoff slope of the obesity epidemic. In the 1970s, the U.S. government went from just subsidizing some of the worst foods to paying companies...
Marketing Takes Off and Obesity Soars 

Marketing Takes Off and Obesity Soars 

The unprecedented rise in the power, scope, and sophistication of food marketing starting around 1980 aligns well with the blastoff slope of the obesity epidemic. In the 1970s, the U.S. government went from just subsidizing some of the worst foods to paying companies...
Marketing Takes Off and Obesity Soars 

Marketing Takes Off and Obesity Soars 

The unprecedented rise in the power, scope, and sophistication of food marketing starting around 1980 aligns well with the blastoff slope of the obesity epidemic. In the 1970s, the U.S. government went from just subsidizing some of the worst foods to paying companies...
Do Taxpayer Subsidies Play a Role in the Obesity Epidemic? 

Do Taxpayer Subsidies Play a Role in the Obesity Epidemic? 

Why are U.S. taxpayers giving billions of dollars to support the likes of the sugar and meat industries? The rise in calorie surplus sufficient to explain the obesity epidemic was less a change in food quantity than in food quality. Access to cheap, high-calorie,...