• PLoS medicine · Jan 2012

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    "Big food," the consumer food environment, health, and the policy response in South Africa.

    • Ehimario U Igumbor, David Sanders, Thandi R Puoane, Lungiswa Tsolekile, Cassandra Schwarz, Christopher Purdy, Rina Swart, Solange Durão, and Corinna Hawkes.
    • School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa. ehi.igumbor@gmail.com
    • PLoS Med. 2012 Jan 1; 9 (7): e1001253e1001253.

    AbstractIn an article that forms part of the PLoS Medicine series on Big Food, Corinna Hawkes and colleagues provide a perspective from South Africa on the rise of multinational and domestic food companies, and argue that government should act urgently through education about the health risks of unhealthy diets, regulation of Big Food, and support for healthy foods.

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