Impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement on high-fructose corn syrup supply in Canada: a natural experiment using synthetic control methods

P Barlow, M McKee, S Basu, D Stuckler - Cmaj, 2017 - Can Med Assoc
BACKGROUND: Critics of free trade agreements have argued that they threaten public
health, as they eliminate barriers to trade in potentially harmful products, such as sugar …

Farm policies and added sugars in US diets

JC Beghin, HH Jensen - Food Policy, 2008 - Elsevier
We examine how US farm policies for sweetener crops have affected the consumption and
composition of sweeteners in the US diet. R&D expenditures have lowered the unit cost of …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of US free trade agreements on calorie availability and obesity: a natural experiment in Canada

P Barlow, M McKee, D Stuckler - American journal of preventive medicine, 2018 - Elsevier
Introduction Globalization via free trade and investment agreements is often implicated in
the obesity pandemic. Concerns center on how free trade and investment agreements …

[HTML][HTML] Trade and investment liberalization, food systems change and highly processed food consumption: a natural experiment contrasting the soft-drink markets of …

P Baker, S Friel, A Schram, R Labonte - Globalization and health, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Background Free trade agreements (FTAs) can affect food environments and non-
communicable disease risks through altering the availability of highly-processed foods. Few …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of Seattle's sugar-sweetened beverage tax on substitution to sweets and salty snacks

VM Oddo, J Leider, LM Powell - The Journal of Nutrition, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes may have broad effects on purchases
of untaxed foods, and substitution of SSBs with untaxed sweets and/or salty snacks could …

[HTML][HTML] Is trade liberalisation a vector for the spread of sugar-sweetened beverages? A cross-national longitudinal analysis of 44 low-and middle-income countries

AM Lopez, R Loopstra, M McKee, D Stuckler - Social science & medicine, 2017 - Elsevier
Does trade and investment liberalisation increase the growth in sales of sugar-sweetened
beverages (SSBs)? Here, for the first time to our knowledge, we test this hypothesis using a …

Soda taxes and the prices of sodas and other drinks: evidence from Mexico

J Grogger - 2017 - Wiley Online Library
To combat a growing obesity problem, Mexico imposed a nationwide tax on drinks with
added sugar, popularly referred to as a “soda tax,” effective January 2014. Since the tax took …

Reducing added sugars in the food supply through a cap-and-trade approach

S Basu, K Lewis - American journal of public health, 2014 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. We estimated the effect of a simulated cap-and-trade policy to reduce added
sugar in the food supply. Methods. Using nationally representative data on added-sugar …

Does the EU sugar policy reform increase added sugar consumption? An empirical evidence on the soft drink market

C Bonnet, V Requillart - Health economics, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Whereas National Health authorities recommend a decrease in the consumption of
'added'sugar, a reform on the sugar market will lead to a 36% decrease of the sugar price in …

[HTML][HTML] US and EU Free Trade Agreements and implementation of policies to control tobacco, alcohol, and unhealthy food and drinks: A quasi-experimental analysis

P Barlow, LN Allen - PLoS medicine, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Background Identifying and tackling the factors that undermine regulation of unhealthy
commodities is an essential component of effective noncommunicable disease (NCD) …