“Big Food,” the Consumer Food Environment, Health, and the Policy Response in South Africa
Open Access
- 3 July 2012
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 9 (7), e1001253
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001253
Abstract
In an article that forms part of the PLoS Medicine series on Big Food, Corinna Hawkes and colleagues provide a perspective from South Africa on the rise of multinational and domestic food companies, and argue that government should act urgently through education about the health risks of unhealthy diets, regulation of Big Food, and support for healthy foods.Keywords
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