TY - JOUR
T1 - Of nannies and nudges
T2 - The current state of U.S. obesity policymaking
AU - Kersh, R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 The Royal Society for Public Health.
PY - 2015/8/1
Y1 - 2015/8/1
N2 - In the sprawling American political debates over obesity, which date back a decade and a half, 'nanny state' has been a rhetorical cudgel used to oppose those seeking even modest state action to address rising obesity rates. This essay explores obesity policy through the prism of state involvement, focusing on four possible types of response to what virtually all those involved-physicians and nutritional scientists, public-health advocacy groups, even food industry executives-agree is a serious threat to individual and collective health.
AB - In the sprawling American political debates over obesity, which date back a decade and a half, 'nanny state' has been a rhetorical cudgel used to oppose those seeking even modest state action to address rising obesity rates. This essay explores obesity policy through the prism of state involvement, focusing on four possible types of response to what virtually all those involved-physicians and nutritional scientists, public-health advocacy groups, even food industry executives-agree is a serious threat to individual and collective health.
KW - Nanny state
KW - Obesity
KW - Public health law
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U2 - 10.1016/j.puhe.2015.05.018
DO - 10.1016/j.puhe.2015.05.018
M3 - Review article
C2 - 26189801
AN - SCOPUS:84941599268
SN - 0033-3506
VL - 129
SP - 1083
EP - 1091
JO - Public Health
JF - Public Health
IS - 8
ER -