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  • About the Global Food Research Program @ UNC
  • Our Team
  • Projects
    • HWCF Evaluation
      • HWCF Evaluation Baseline Report
    • Evaluating SES Disparities, Sodium, Saturated Fat, Added Sugar
    • Evaluation of 2014 SSB & Non-Essential Foods Taxes in Mexico
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  • Publications

Projects

Current projects at the UNC Food Research Program include:

    • Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation Evaluation

    • Evaluating SES Disparities related to purchases and consumption of Sodium, Saturated Fat, Added Sugar in US

    • Evaluation of 2014 SSB and Non-Essential Foods Taxes in Mexico

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    University of North Carolina
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  • In the News

     
    • Study Finds Mexico’s Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax Reduced Purchases of Sugary Drinks January 11, 2016
    • Guardian: Americans cutting calorie intake but junk food proves a hard habit to kick August 3, 2015
    • NYTimes quotes Dr. Popkin in ‘Americans Are Finally Eating Less’ July 24, 2015
    • Taxes may discourage purchase of sugared & high-fat beverages in US households with young children June 24, 2015
    • Purchases of taxed beverages decline in Mexico after excise tax takes effect June 16, 2015
  • Recent Publications

     
    Ng SW, Bricker G, Li KP, Yoon EF, Kang J, Westrich B. Estimating added sugars in US consumer packaged goods: An application to beverages in 2007–08. J Food Compost Anal. 2015 Nov 1;43:7-17. [Epub ahead of print] view PDF version

    Ford CN, Ng SW, Popkin BM. Targeted Beverage Taxes Influence Food and Beverage Purchases among Households with Preschool Children. J Nutrition. 2015 Aug;145(8):1835-43. view PDF version

    Smith Taillie L, Jaacks LM. Toward a Just, Nutritious, and Sustainable Food System: The False Dichotomy of Localism versus Supercenterism. J Nutrition. 2015 June 3. [epub ahead of print] view PDF version

  • Partners

     
    Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
    www.rwjf.org
     
    National Institute of Public Health of Mexico
    http://www.insp.mx/insp-overview.html
     
    Bloomberg Philanthropies Obesity Prevention Program
    www.bloomberg.org/program/public-health/#obesity-prevention

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