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Beyond the Code Book: Legal Tools for Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Julie Ralston Aoki ,
Manel Kappagoda  and
Seth E. Mermin
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Each of the five main goals set out in the IOM’s report, Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention (“IOM Report”), includes recommended strategies and actions that raise questions of law and legal authority. In many instances, the IOM’s recommendations can be accomplished most directly and efficiently through mandatory regulation or legislation — for example, imposing taxes to decrease consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), passing laws that require substantial physical education periods in schools, or promulgating regulations that ensure nutrition standards for foods and beverages sold or served in educational settings. Much has been written on using legislation to support obesity prevention efforts. The route of direct legislation, however, is not always readily available — as the so-far-unsuccessful effort to pass taxes on SSBs, for example, vividly illustrates.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 41 , Issue S2 , Summer 2013 , pp. 61 - 67
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2013

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