| Food companies' calorie-reduction pledges to improve u.s. Diet. | |
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PMID: 23332336 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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Heretofore, corporate voluntary pledges to improve the health of Americans have been linked neither to explicit measurable commitments nor to a framework for an independent evaluation. The Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation (HWCF), whose members include 16 of the nation's leading consumer packaged goods food and beverage manufacturers, voluntarily pledged to collectively remove 1 trillion calories from their products by 2012 (against a 2007 baseline), and 1.5 trillion calories by 2015. The pledge is designed to reduce the calorie gap commensurate with the HWCF companies' role in the U.S. diet. To date, no system exists for documenting the nutritional and public health impacts of industry-led changes in the food supply on individual diets. The current study represents a unique opportunity to understand how the consumer packaged goods food and beverage sector is changing and how these changes are associated with changes in the American diet. It presents data on national caloric sales from this sector, purchases of these goods by various subpopulations, and methods linking these to individual intakes of Americans. Findings show that HWCF companies accounted for approximately 25% of calories consumed in the U.S. in 2007 and that the 1.5 trillion-calorie pledge (about 14 calories/day/capita) accounts for 0.8% of the calories sold across all consumer packaged goods food and beverage brands in 2007. The authors hope that this evaluation will continue to create models and methods for demonstrating the effects of changes in the food supply on individual diets, particularly among those from vulnerable subpopulations. |
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Meghan M Slining; Shu Wen Ng; Barry M Popkin |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: American journal of preventive medicine Volume: 44 ISSN: 1873-2607 ISO Abbreviation: Am J Prev Med Publication Date: 2013 Feb |
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Created Date: 2013-01-21 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8704773 Medline TA: Am J Prev Med Country: Netherlands |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 174-84 Citation Subset: IM |
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Copyright © 2013 American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
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Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. |
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