In the News . . .

• Colombia passes ambitious ‘junk food law’ to tackle lifestyle diseases -- The Guardian (10 November 2023)
  
  
• Junk food marketing is ‘prevalent everywhere’ and promotes ‘unhealthy diets’ to children: WHO -- FOODnavigator (07 February 2022)
  
  
• Global Junk Food -- (51:27 Min, 2016) Directed by: Camille Le Pomellec, Top Documentary Films (25 April 2021)
  
  
• Mark Bittman’s warning: the true costs of our cheap food and the American diet -- TheGuardian (25 April 2021)
  
  
• The tech giants’ diet is bad for everyone’s health -- The Guardian (11 April 2021)
  
  
• Bittman, Mark. 2021. Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal. NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
  
  • Listen (50:19): Mark Bittman Cooked Everything. Now He Wants to Change Everything. The Ezra Klein Show (16 March 2021)
    
    
    • Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews Mark Bittman -- Ezra Klein (16 March 2021
      
      
• I coped through the pandemic with a diet of junk food. Now I'm regretting it -- The Guardian (28 February 2021)
  
  
• Kellogg's and Britvic attack plan to ban junk food ads online -- BBCnews (22 November 2020)
  
  
• Mexico state bans sale of sugary drinks and junk food to children-- The Guardian (06 August 2020)
  
  
• Is sugar really bad for you? -- BBCfuture (30 April 2020)
  
  
• Why vegan junk food may be even worse for your health -- BBCfuture (29 January 2020)
  
  
• Coke, crisps, convenience: how ads created a global junk food generation -- The Guardian (26 December 2019)
  
  
• Iceland livestreams 10-year-old McDonald's cheeseburger -- BBCNews (01 November 2019)
  
  
• Obesity: Ban snacking on public transport, top doctor says -- BBCNews (10 October 2019)
  
  
• Food fight: can we have a presidential election without junk food photo ops? -- The Guardian (24 March 2019)
  
  
• KFC and Kellogg's broke junk food ad rules -- BBCNews (08 August 2018)
  
  
• London Mayor Sadiq Khan plans TfL 'junk food' advert ban -- BBC News (11 May 2018)
  
  
• In Nafta Talks, U.S. Tries to Limit Junk Food Warning Labels -- The New York Times (20 March 2018)
  
  
• One Man’s Stand Against Junk Food as Diabetes Climbs Across India -- The New York Times (26 December 2017)
  
  
• How Big Business Got Brazil Hooked on Junk Food: As growth slows in wealthy countries, Western food companies are aggressively expanding in developing nations, contributing to obesity and health problems -- The New York Times (16 September 2017)
  
  
• Donald Trump Is The Fast-Food President -- David Jamieson, HuffPost (05 August 2017)
  
  
• General election 2017: Labour proposes junk food ad ban -- BBCNews (08 May 2017)
  
  
• In the Shopping Cart of a Food Stamp Household: Lots of Soda -- The New York Times (13 January 2017)
  
  
• Gentrification and Junk Food: Chopped-Cheese Edition -- The New York Times (22 December 2016)
  
  
• When food banks say no to sugary junk, schools offer a solution -- MPRNews (26 November 2016)
  
  
• Stop junk food ads on kids' apps - WHO -- BBCNews (04 November 2016)
  
  
• Big Ag Strikes Back: Why Did the Obamas Fail to Take On Corporate Agriculture? -- Michael Pollan, The New York Times Magazine (05 October 2016)
  
  • Farmer in Chief -- Michael Pollan, The New York Times Magazine (09 October 2008)
    
    
• The Dizzying Grandeur of 21st-Century Agriculture -- George Steinmetz, The New York Times Magazine (05 October 2016)
  
  
• Can Fake Junk Food Truly Satisfy? -- The Atlantic (12 September 2018)
  
  
• Australians eating too much junk food, report finds -- BBCNews (10 August 2016)
  
  
• Twinkies-Maker Hostess Plans A $2.3 Billion Stock Offering -- NPR (05 July 2016)
  
  
• What are the 3 unhealthiest junk foods on Earth? -- Quora
  
  
• Junk food ads face online ban in UK -- BBCNews (14 March 2016)
  
  
• Australians eating too much junk food, report finds -- BBCNews (10 August 2015)
  
  
• Maya Ancestry May Help Explain the High Risk of Diabetes in Mexico -- Science (05 June 2015)
  
  
• Diet swap experiment reveals junk food's harm to gut -- BBCNews (28 April 2015)
  
  
• 5 Unhealthy Foods Engineered to Be Addictive -- Martha Rosenberg, Hungry for Change (10 July 2014)
  
  
• Deep fried Mars bars? Oh no, state fairs must try harder than that -- The Scout Report, August 23, 2013 -- Volume 19, Number 34
  
  
• Front Groups Exposed: 50 Industry Groups Form a New Alliance to Manipulate Public Opinion About Junk Food, GMOs and Harmful Additives -- Mercola, Joseph M., Nation of Change (2 June 2013)
  
  
• The Secret Engineering Of Junk Food -- J. D. Heyes, Hungry for Change
  
  
• Michael Moss, Salt Sugar Fat
  
  
  • Michael Moss on 'Salt Sugar Fat,' how we got so addicted -- MPRNews (1 March 2013)
    
    
  • Book pick: 'Salt Sugar Fat' by Michael Moss -- MPRNews (26 February 2013)
    
    
  • The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food -- MICHAEL MOSS, The New York Times (20 February 2013)
    
    
  • Moss, Michael. Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us. Random House, 2013.

     

• Coke Still Needs to Get Real -- Jill Richardson, Nation of Change (27 January 2013)
  
  
• Soft drink makers, NAACP challenge New York City's drink size limit in court -- JENNIFER PELTZ, Associated Press, MPRNews (23 January 2013)
  
  
• Media giant Walt Disney to ban junk food ads -- BBCNews (05 June 2012)
  
  
• New York mayor proposes ban on big sugary drinks -- BBCNews (31 May 2012)