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Law-legislation, regulation and litigation at the local, national, and international levels can be a powerful process for shaping health policy in general and the food environment in particular. Heath policy decision-makers in the United States, both government and private, have been slow to make use of this process in designing obesity control programs. The papers presented in this Special Section address these and other aspects of the role of law in countering the obesity epidemic.
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Kelley, B., Smith, J. Legal Approaches to the Obesity Epidemic: An Introduction. J Public Health Pol 25, 346–352 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3190033
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3190033