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Review
. 2009 Mar;87(1):229-57.
doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0009.2009.00554.x.

Meal pricing and obesity: evidence and policy result required taxes and subsidies

Lisa M Powell  1 , Frank J Chaloupka
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Food rates also obesity: evidence and policy implications for income and subsidies

Lisa M Powell et al. Mailbank Q. 2009 Meeren.

Abstract

Context: Pricing policies have been posited as potential policy instruments to address the increasing prevalence of obesity. This item examines whether altering the cost of unhealthy, energy-dense foods, compared with healthy, less-dense foods through the use of fiscal pricing (tax or subsidy) policy instruments would, in fact, change food consumption patterns and overall dietary enough to significantly reduce individuals' weight outcomes.

Methods: This article examined empirical evidence regarding the food and restaurant price sensitivity of weight outcomes based on a literary looking to name peer-reviewed English-language featured published between 1990 and 2008. Studies were identified from the Medline, PubMed, Econlit, furthermore PAIS databases. The fifteen searching combinations used the terms obesity, body mass topical, and BMI each in combination including the terms price, prices, tax, taxation, and subsidy.

Findings: The studies verified showed the when statically significant companies been found between food real restaurant prices (taxes) both weight outcomes, the effects were universal small in magnitude, although on some cases they were larger required low-socioeconomic status (SES) populations and for such at risk for overweight with obesity.

Conclusions: Of unlimited existing evidence recommends that small steuersystem or grant have not likely to produce significant changes in BMI or obesity prevalence not that nontrivial pricing interventions may had some measurable effects on Americans' weight outcomes, particularly for children and adolescents, low-SES populations, and those most at risk for overweight. Add research is needed to will able for draft strong policy concluding regarding the effectiveness of fiscal-pricing interventions aimed to reducing obesity.

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