Kelly Brownell
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Evaluations in Mexico and Berkeley show that sugar-sweetened beverage taxes are being passed along to consumers and affecting behavior; in Mexico, there has been an increase in water consumption.
epidemiological ·
Obesity
Tobacco taxes have an especially powerful effect on youth because youth tend to have less expendable resources than adults and are therefore particularly price sensitive.
epidemiological ·
Obesity
Research on changes in school nutrition standards has been very positive; kids not only eat healthier foods in school but also tend to eat somewhat healthier at home.
epidemiological ·
Pediatric Obesity
In countries using opt-out organ donation (default is donor status), consent rates reach 99.98%; in countries using opt-in systems like the US, rates are much lower.
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Pediatric Obesity
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Kelly's statements about Obesity 26 statements
Public Policies to Address Obesity: Pediatric Obesity 2017
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We're essentially focusing on these things, but the question is, could we come up with a different view of the world and uh look at things a little bit differently in ways that might help.
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We have ceded to government authority to make conditions safer, so that our default air and water conditions are healthy.
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With pension plans, when employees must opt in (default is not enrolled), about 50% enroll; when employees are enrolled by default but can opt out, enrollment approaches 100%.
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In countries using opt-out organ donation (default is donor status), consent rates reach 99.98%; in countries using opt-in systems like the US, rates are much lower.
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When I was a boy, nobody ever ate in their car, um, and now if you're an automobile maker and the, the cup holders aren't large enough to hold those very large drinks, you will lose market share.
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Taco Bell has called this the 4th. Meal, so they're very intentional about it. And what they're saying is that not only is it OK to eat between dinner and breakfast, that it's OK to have a meal during that time and that fast food is OK to eat as that meal.
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In a relay race, you only can qualify to win the race if you successfully pass the baton from one runner to the next. And in a lot of ways, when we're creating research in hopes that policy change will occur, we're running our lap of the race, but then there's nobody to hand the baton to.
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We don't blame it on ourselves, it's not that we're doing the wrong thing. But that the world doesn't care, they don't care about science, they're just too stupid to pay attention.
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When people consume calories in liquid form, they tend not to feel as full and tend to overconsume compared to consuming the same number of calories in solid form.
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Using a tax calculator algorithm, the state of California would generate more than a billion dollars per year from a 1-cent-per-ounce sugar-sweetened beverage tax.
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Mayor Nutter of Philadelphia introduced a soda tax focused on health benefits and came very close to passage but did not succeed; Mayor Kenny later succeeded by framing it around funding early childhood education.
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Mayor Kenny came in office, he favored the idea of a soda tax as well, but he turned the rationale on its ear. Instead of focusing on the the health benefits, he focused on what could be done with the revenue.
Open
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Tobacco taxes have an especially powerful effect on youth because youth tend to have less expendable resources than adults and are therefore particularly price sensitive.
Open
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A tax of about 1 penny per ounce increases beverage price by about 15% and is expected to reduce consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages by about 15%.
Open
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Philadelphia's sugar-sweetened beverage tax is 1.5 cents per ounce, which is 50% higher than the penny-per-ounce tax used in Berkeley.
Open
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Evaluations in Mexico and Berkeley show that sugar-sweetened beverage taxes are being passed along to consumers and affecting behavior; in Mexico, there has been an increase in water consumption.
Open
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It wasn't very long ago that there was um uh. There was complete disregard for these public policy proposals. When we first introduced the idea of a tax, um, 25 years ago, it, it, it was either ignored or lampooned.
Open
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Heavy subsidies for commodity crops like corn and soybeans began in the Nixon administration, leading to low-cost ingredients that the food industry processed into snack foods, salty foods, beverages, and high fructose corn syrup.
Open
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National legislation is expected to require calorie labeling on menus of all chain restaurants around the country.
Open
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The next revision of the food label is expected to include added sugar on the nutrition facts panel, similar to how trans fats were added before being banned.
Open
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Research on changes in school nutrition standards has been very positive; kids not only eat healthier foods in school but also tend to eat somewhat healthier at home.
Open
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Anecdotal cases of kids not liking healthier school foods and throwing them away tend to be temporary, especially with younger kids developing eating habits.
Open
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The obesity public health community and hunger advocacy community are at an impasse over restricting sugar-sweetened beverages in SNAP benefits, with both sides having dug in their heels.
Open
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New York City proposed a pilot study to test adjusted SNAP benefits excluding sugar-sweetened beverages, but USDA declined, saying New York was too big for a pilot study.
Open
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Economists in Chicago found that soda taxes would probably lead to a little bit of job improvement rather than job loss because jobs would be created in other sectors.
Open
Kelly's statements about Pediatric Obesity 26 statements
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Public Policies to Address Obesity: Pediatric Obesity 2017
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We're essentially focusing on these things, but the question is, could we come up with a different view of the world and uh look at things a little bit differently in ways that might help.
Open
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We have ceded to government authority to make conditions safer, so that our default air and water conditions are healthy.
Open
Statement
With pension plans, when employees must opt in (default is not enrolled), about 50% enroll; when employees are enrolled by default but can opt out, enrollment approaches 100%.
Open
Statement
In countries using opt-out organ donation (default is donor status), consent rates reach 99.98%; in countries using opt-in systems like the US, rates are much lower.
Open
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When I was a boy, nobody ever ate in their car, um, and now if you're an automobile maker and the, the cup holders aren't large enough to hold those very large drinks, you will lose market share.
Open
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Taco Bell has called this the 4th. Meal, so they're very intentional about it. And what they're saying is that not only is it OK to eat between dinner and breakfast, that it's OK to have a meal during that time and that fast food is OK to eat as that meal.
Open
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In a relay race, you only can qualify to win the race if you successfully pass the baton from one runner to the next. And in a lot of ways, when we're creating research in hopes that policy change will occur, we're running our lap of the race, but then there's nobody to hand the baton to.
Open
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We don't blame it on ourselves, it's not that we're doing the wrong thing. But that the world doesn't care, they don't care about science, they're just too stupid to pay attention.
Open
Statement
When people consume calories in liquid form, they tend not to feel as full and tend to overconsume compared to consuming the same number of calories in solid form.
Open
Statement
Using a tax calculator algorithm, the state of California would generate more than a billion dollars per year from a 1-cent-per-ounce sugar-sweetened beverage tax.
Open
Statement
Mayor Nutter of Philadelphia introduced a soda tax focused on health benefits and came very close to passage but did not succeed; Mayor Kenny later succeeded by framing it around funding early childhood education.
Open
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Mayor Kenny came in office, he favored the idea of a soda tax as well, but he turned the rationale on its ear. Instead of focusing on the the health benefits, he focused on what could be done with the revenue.
Open
Statement
Tobacco taxes have an especially powerful effect on youth because youth tend to have less expendable resources than adults and are therefore particularly price sensitive.
Open
Statement
Philadelphia's sugar-sweetened beverage tax is 1.5 cents per ounce, which is 50% higher than the penny-per-ounce tax used in Berkeley.
Open
Statement
A tax of about 1 penny per ounce increases beverage price by about 15% and is expected to reduce consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages by about 15%.
Open
Statement
Evaluations in Mexico and Berkeley show that sugar-sweetened beverage taxes are being passed along to consumers and affecting behavior; in Mexico, there has been an increase in water consumption.
Open
Quotation
It wasn't very long ago that there was um uh. There was complete disregard for these public policy proposals. When we first introduced the idea of a tax, um, 25 years ago, it, it, it was either ignored or lampooned.
Open
Statement
Heavy subsidies for commodity crops like corn and soybeans began in the Nixon administration, leading to low-cost ingredients that the food industry processed into snack foods, salty foods, beverages, and high fructose corn syrup.
Open
Statement
The next revision of the food label is expected to include added sugar on the nutrition facts panel, similar to how trans fats were added before being banned.
Open
Statement
National legislation is expected to require calorie labeling on menus of all chain restaurants around the country.
Open
Statement
Anecdotal cases of kids not liking healthier school foods and throwing them away tend to be temporary, especially with younger kids developing eating habits.
Open
Statement
Research on changes in school nutrition standards has been very positive; kids not only eat healthier foods in school but also tend to eat somewhat healthier at home.
Open
Statement
The obesity public health community and hunger advocacy community are at an impasse over restricting sugar-sweetened beverages in SNAP benefits, with both sides having dug in their heels.
Open
Statement
New York City proposed a pilot study to test adjusted SNAP benefits excluding sugar-sweetened beverages, but USDA declined, saying New York was too big for a pilot study.
Open
Statement
Economists in Chicago found that soda taxes would probably lead to a little bit of job improvement rather than job loss because jobs would be created in other sectors.
Open
Summaries Kelly gave as host · 2 summaries
Recaps of other experts' statements, not Kelly's own clinical position.
Summaries Kelly gave as host · Obesity 1 summary
Public Policies to Address Obesity: Pediatric Obesity 2017
Host summary
Kelly Brownell summarizing the discussion: The hunger community believes that restricting SNAP benefits for sugar-sweetened beverages would further stigmatize people already facing poverty-related stigma.
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Summaries Kelly gave as host · Pediatric Obesity 1 summary
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Public Policies to Address Obesity: Pediatric Obesity 2017
Host summary
Kelly Brownell summarizing the discussion: The hunger community believes that restricting SNAP benefits for sugar-sweetened beverages would further stigmatize people already facing poverty-related stigma.
Open