Target Marketing Subcommittee Statement of Principles

The statement of principles, approved by the Food Marketing Workgroup Steering Committee, is attached.

 

Slides from Voices for Healthy Kids

The attached slides talk about policy priorities, school marketing campaigns, and funding opportunities from Voices for Healthy Kids.

 

BMSG Public Health Campaign Papers

Soda and tobacco industry corporate social responsibility campaigns: How do they compare?

http://www.bmsg.org/sites/default/files/bmsg_phai_plos_soda_and_tobacco_industry_csr_campaigns.pdf

 

This study from BMSG analyzes how the tobacco industry has used "freedom of choice" language and appeals to personal responsibility both in the media and in the courtroom to prevent litigation and blame consumers for the health consequences of using tobacco. Conducted in collaboration with the Public Health Advocacy Institute, the study also looks at implications for other industries like soda and junk food, which have replicated and refined tobacco industry tactics.

 

Accelerating policy on nutrition: Lessons from tobacco, alcohol, firearms, and traffic safety

http://bmsg.org/sites/default/files/bmsg_report_accelerating_policy_on_nutrition_0.pdf

 

Public health advocates in tobacco, alcohol, firearms, and traffic safety struggled for years before understanding that individual approaches alone won't suffice and that environmental (or policy) approaches to prevention had to be part of the mix. This report from BMSG looks at how public health got to the point of pushing policy in other arenas so that public health funders, researchers, and practitioners might adapt and apply those lessons to preventing and reducing obesity. 

 

PreventObesity.net

Leaders in the movement to reverse the obesity epidemic are invited to join PreventObesity.net.  Please use this link: http://act.preventobesity.net/p/salsa/web/common/public/signup?signup_page_KEY=6939&tag=6939BMSG

 

Restaurant Children’s Meals Subcommittee

If you are interested in joining the Food Marketing Workgroup Restaurant Children’s Meals Subcommittee, please contact Tony Ellis at [log in to unmask], or simply reply to this message.

 

Upcoming Food Marketing Workgroup Meetings

Save the date for the following Food Marketing Workgroup phone meetings (all begin at 3 pm ET , which is noon PT/)

·                     Wed, Oct 7, 2015

·                     Wed, Dec 16, 2015

·                     Wed, March 16, 2016

·                     Wed, June 15, 2016

 

Jessica Almy

Senior Nutrition Policy Counsel

Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)

Direct Line: 202.777.8358