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04/02/2021

Video: "The Truth about Type 2 Diabetes and the choices we make." What is it like to have and what can you do to protect yourself? Witnesses talk about this disease and about strategies to prevent or recover from it. Via avhc.org https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQpeHVXXF-0

What is it like to have diabetes and what can you do to protect yourself? Witnesses talk about this disease and about strategies to prevent or recover from ...

07/30/2020

Cost-Effectiveness Of A Workplace Ban On Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Sales Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) increase chronic disease risk. By Sanjay Basu, Laurie M. Jacobs, Elissa Epel, Dean Schillinger, and Laura Schmidt. Health Affairs, July 2020. Read more: https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/pdf/10.1377/hlthaff.2019.01483

07/22/2020

New in : Research by Laura Schmidt, Melissa Mialon, Cristin Kearns, & Eric Crosbie shows that production of soda is linked to water scarcity and obesity and is impacting public health in low-income & middle-income countries (LMICs) UCSF https://thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(20)30146-7/fulltext

07/10/2020

Claire Brindis, DrPH has stepped down as Director of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF, after 11 years. Daniel Dohan, PhD, will serve in an interim capacity until a new Director is selected. Read Claire Brindis' Director's message here: https://healthpolicy.ucsf.edu/claire-brindis-directors-message

Claire Brindis, DrPH has stepped down as Director of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF, after 11 years. Daniel Dohan, PhD, will serve in an interim capacity until a new Director is selected. Read Claire Brindis' Director's message here: https://healthpolicy.ucsf.edu/claire-brindis-directors-message

06/19/2020

"Sugar: The Unsweetened Truth and What We Can Do About It" Laura Schmidt, PhD professor at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies UCSF and founder of SugarScienceNow explores the causes and solutions, taking lessons from to***co: reducing the availability of harmful substances reduces consumption, thereby reducing harms to health. Watch in here University of California Television (UCTV) https://www.uctv.tv/shows/35586

10/28/2019

New research from UCSF shows that a Sales Ban on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages was associated with a reduction in SSB intake and a significant reduction in waist circumference among employees. Journal Study: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2753425

Workers at the University of California, San Francisco, lost belly fat and showed metabolic benefits after a ban on sugary drinks went into effect.

05/24/2019

First strict test shows why a packs on weight https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01523-w Link to study by Kevin D. Hall et al. and the NIH’s NIDDK National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550413119302487

03/16/2019

A new study from UCSF documents the role U.S. to***co companies played in the development of major sugar-sweetened beverage brands marketed to kids.

To***co conglomerates that used colors, flavors and marketing techniques to entice children as future smokers transferred these same strategies to sweetened beverages when they bought food and drinks companies starting in 1963. "Executives in the two largest U.S.-based to***co companies had developed colors and flavors as additives for ci******es and used them to build major children's beverage product lines, including Hawaiian Punch, Kool-Aid, Tang and Capri Sun," said senior study author Laura Schmidt, of the UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies. "Even after the to***co companies sold these brands to food and beverage corporations, many of the product lines and marketing techniques designed to attract kids are still in use today.”
Read the full publication here: https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l736

03/15/2019

New study by researchers Kim Nguyen and Laura Schmidt reveals that documents archived in the UCSF library show that were marketed to children using the same tactics employed by the ***coindustry
http://sugarscience.ucsf.edu/soft-drink-companies-copy-to***co-playbook-to-lure-young-users.html

03/15/2019

How ***co Hooked Children on -
Researchers at combing through archives at the UCSF library discovered that cigarette makers used the same marketing strategies to sell sweetened beverages to generations of children.

Researchers combing through archives discovered that cigarette makers had applied their marketing wizardry to sweetened beverages and turned generations of children into loyal customers.