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Africa

• Nutrients
  • A Scoping Review of Policies Related to the Prevention and Control of Overweight and Obesity in Africa [2021]

Americas

• Pan American Health Organization
  • Consumption of Ultra-processed and Processed Foods with Excessive Nutrients Associated with Noncommunicable Chronic Diseases and Unhealthy Diets in the Americas [2023]
  • Sugar-sweetened beverage taxation in the Region of the Americas [2021]
  • Research to Support the Development of Front-of-Package Labeling Regulations for Food Products in the Americas: Methods, Tools, and Procedures [2021]
  • Pan American Health Organization Nutrient Profile Model [2016]

Argentina

• PLoS ONE
  • The burden of disease and economic impact of sugar-sweetened beverages’ consumption in Argentina: A modeling study [2023]

Australia

• Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
  • Local government policies on healthy food promotion and obesity prevention: results from a national Australian survey [2022]

• Australian Family Physician
  • The 2013 Australian dietary guidelines and recommendations for older Australians [2015]

• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
  • Physical activity [2024]
  • Diet [2024]
  • Reducing the burden due to overweight (including obesity) and physical inactivity [2023]
  • Poor diet [2019]

• Australian Journal of General Practice
  • The Australian Dietary Guidelines review: Time to plan for wider dissemination via general practitioners [2021]

• Department of Health, Disability and Ageing
  • Eat for Health

• National Health and Medical Research Council
  • Australian Dietary Guidelines [2013]

• Nutrients
  • A Comparison of the Australian Dietary Guidelines to the NOVA Classification System in Classifying Foods to Predict Energy Intakes and Body Mass Index [2022]
  • Compliance with Dietary Guidelines Varies by Weight Status: A Cross-Sectional Study of Australian Adults [2018]
  • Interpreting the Australian Dietary Guideline to “Limit” into Practical and Personalised Advice [2015]

• Nutrition Australia
  • Nutrition Australia

• Scientific Reports
  • Typical food portion sizes consumed by Australian adults: results from the 2011–12 Australian National Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey [2016]

Austria

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Obesity, Fruit and Vegetable Intake, and Physical Activity Patterns in Austrian Farmers Compared to the General Population [2022]

• Wiener klinische Wochenschrift
  • Evaluation of a meal replacement-based weight management program in primary care settings according to the actual European Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Obesity in Adults [2014]

Bahrain

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • The Bahraini food based dietary guidelines: a holistic perspective to health and wellbeing [2023]

Barbados

• International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
  • Assessing the impact of the Barbados sugar-sweetened beverage tax on beverage sales: an observational study [2019]

Brazil

• Cadernos de Saúde Pública
  • Evolution of nutrition actions in primary health care along the 20-year history of the Brazilian National Food and Nutrition Policy [2022]

• Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
  • Table sugar and sweeteners as added items in diet of the Brazilian population: National Dietary Survey, 2017-2018 [2026]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Guidelines and Preliminary Results of Group-Based Nutrition Interventions for Obesity Management Among Adults in Brazilian Primary Health Care [2025]

• International Journal of Public Health
  • Changes in Obesity Prevalence Attributable to Ultra-Processed Food Consumption in Brazil Between 2002 and 2009 [2022]

• PLoS Medicine
  • Estimated reduction in obesity prevalence and costs of a 20% and 30% ad valorem excise tax to sugar-sweetened beverages in Brazil: A modeling study [2024]

• PLoS ONE
  • Impact of implementation of front-of-package nutrition labeling on sugary beverage consumption and consequently on the prevalence of excess body weight and obesity and related direct costs in Brazil: An estimate through a modeling study [2023]

Canada

• Canadian Family Physician
  • Canada’s new Healthy Eating Strategy [2019]

• Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research
  • Identifying and Mapping Canadian Registered Dietitians' Perceptions and Knowledge of and Experiences with Weight-Related Evidence: A Scoping Review [2025]

• Government of Canada
  • Canada's Food Guide

• Health Canada
  • Canada’s food guide stakeholder toolkit [2019]
  • Health Canada's healthy eating strategy
  • Canada’s dietary guidelines

• Nutrients
  • Assessment of Packaged Foods and Beverages Carrying Nutrition Marketing against Canada’s Food Guide Recommendations [2019]

• Nutrition Journal
  • Association of breakfast consumption with body mass index and prevalence of overweight/obesity in a nationally-representative survey of Canadian adults [2016]

• Obesity Canada
  • Medical Nutrition Therapy in Obesity Management [2022]
  • Physical Activity in Obesity Management [2020]

• Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Healthy food procurement and nutrition standards in public facilities: evidence synthesis and consensus policy recommendations [2018]

• Public Health Nutrition
  • Adherence to a priori dietary patterns in relation to obesity: results from two cycles of the Canadian National Nutrition Survey [2023]

Canada, United States

• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
  • Dietary Reference Intakes for Energy [2023]

Caribbean

• Pan American Health Organization
  • Recommended Nutrient Intakes and Population Nutrient Intake Goals for the Caribbean [2020]

Central and Eastern Europe

• Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
  • Long-term impact of a sugar-sweetened beverage tax and increased physical activity on obesity and diabetes burden in Central and Eastern European Countries: a microsimulation model [2025]

China

• Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Guidelines for medical nutrition treatment of overweight/obesity in China (2021) [2022]

• BMC Public Health
  • Is economic environment associated with the physical activity levels and obesity in Chinese adults? A cross-sectional study of 30 regions in China [2017]

• BMC Women's Health
  • Trends of central obesity and associations with nutrients intake and daily behaviors among women of childbearing age in China [2022]

• China CDC Weekly
  • Interpretation of Healthy Diet Campaign in Healthy China Initiative 2019–2030 [2021]

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • How exercise frequency affects BMI: a nationwide cross-sectional study exploring key influencing factors, including dietary behavior [2025]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Modeling the Effect of Physical Activity on Obesity in China: Evidence from the Longitudinal China Health and Nutrition Study 1989–2011 [2017]
  • A Review of the Growth of the Fast Food Industry in China and Its Potential Impact on Obesity [2016]

• npj Science of Food
  • Impact of dietary transitions on overweight and obesity burden and future trends among Chinese adults [2025]

• Nutrients
  • Predominant Dietary Pattern Characteristics and Their Association with Obesity-Related Metabolic Phenotypes in Middle-Aged and Older Chinese Adults: Findings from a Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study [2026]
  • Dietary Patterns and Obesity in Chinese Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2022]
  • A Systematic Review of Diet Quality Index and Obesity among Chinese Adults [2021]
  • The Development of a Chinese Healthy Eating Index and Its Application in the General Population [2017]

• Obesity Reviews
  • The emergence of cardiometabolic disease risk in Chinese children and adults: consequences of changes in diet, physical activity, and obesity [2014]
  • Synthesis and Implications: China’s Nutrition Transition in the Context of Changes Across other Low and Middle Income Countries [2014]
  • Dynamics of the Chinese Diet and the Role of Urbanicity, 1991–2011 [2014]
  • China in the period of transition from scarcity and extensive undernutrition to emerging nutrition-related noncommunicable diseases, 1949–1992 [2014]

China, India

• Annals of Global Health
  • Fast Food, Health Impacts, and Policy Responses in China and India [2026]

Eastern Mediterranean, Middle East

• Nutrients
  • Food-Based Dietary Guidelines around the World: Eastern Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Countries [2019]

Ethiopia

• Advances in Nutrition
  • Dietary Recommendations for Ethiopians on the Basis of Priority Diet-Related Diseases and Causes of Death in Ethiopia: An Umbrella Review [2023]

Europe

• European Association for the Study of Obesity
  • European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) Position Statement on Medical Nutrition Therapy for the Management of Individuals with Overweight or Obesity and Cancer [2025]
  • European Association for the Study of Obesity Position Statement on Medical Nutrition Therapy for the Management of Overweight and Obesity in Adults Developed in Collaboration with the European Federation of the Associations of Dietitians [2023]
  • Exercise training in the management of overweight and obesity in adults: Synthesis of the evidence and recommendations from the European Association for the Study of Obesity Physical Activity Working Group [2021]
  • European Guidelines for Obesity Management in Adults with a Very Low-Calorie Ketogenic Diet: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2021]

• European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism
  • Nutritional management of individuals with obesity and COVID-19: ESPEN expert statements and practical guidance [2022]

• WHO European Region
  • The Diet Impact Assessment model: a tool for analyzing the health, environmental and affordability implications of dietary change [2023]
  • Promoting physical activity and healthy diets for healthy ageing in the WHO European Region [2023]
  • Nutrition, overweight and obesity: factsheet on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): health target [2021]
  • Factsheets on health-enhancing physical activity in the 28 European Union Member States of the WHO European Region [2015]
  • Country profiles on nutrition, physical activity and obesity in the 53 WHO European Region Member States [2013]
  • Nutrition, Physical Activity & Obesity

France

• American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Prospective association of the EAT-Lancet reference diet with body weight changes and incidence of overweight and obesity in a French cohort [2025]

• Nutrients
  • Guidelines on Standard and Therapeutic Diets for Adults in Hospitals by the French Association of Nutritionist Dieticians (AFDN) and the French Speaking Society of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (SFNCM) [2021]
  • French Recommendations for Sugar Intake in Adults: A Novel Approach Chosen by ANSES [2018]

• PLoS Medicine
  • Ultra-processed food intake in association with BMI change and risk of overweight and obesity: A prospective analysis of the French NutriNet-Santé cohort [2020]
  • Adherence to the 2017 French dietary guidelines and adult weight gain: A cohort study [2019]

• PLoS ONE
  • Dietary Quality and 6-Year Anthropometric Changes in a Sample of French Middle-Aged Overweight and Obese Adults [2014]

Germany

• BMC Public Health
  • Taxing sugar-sweetened beverages: impact on overweight and obesity in Germany [2017]

• International Journal of Obesity
  • Diurnal timing of physical activity in relation to obesity and diabetes in the German National Cohort (NAKO) [2025]

High-income countries

• Food Science & Nutrition
  • A mixed-method systematic review and meta-analysis of the influences of food environments and food insecurity on obesity in high-income countries [2022]

• Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Application of Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions in Dietary Health Management: Systematic Review [2026]

• PLoS ONE
  • Physical activity motives, barriers, and preferences in people with obesity: A systematic review [2021]

Ibero-America

• Nutrients
  • Ibero–American Consensus on Low- and No-Calorie Sweeteners: Safety, Nutritional Aspects and Benefits in Food and Beverages [2018]

India

• Nutrients
  • Sugar Intake, Obesity, and Diabetes in India [2014]

• World Health Organization
  • The growth of ultra-processed foods in India: an analysis of trends, issues and policy recommendations [2023]

Indonesia

• Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Taking the Indonesian nutrition history to leap into betterment of the future generation: development of the Indonesian Nutrition Guidelines [2011]
  • Do Indonesians follow its Dietary Guidelines? - evidence related to food consumption, healthy lifestyle, and nutritional status within the period 2000-2010 [2011]

International

• Archives of Medical Science
  • Which exercise interventions are more helpful in treating primary obesity in young adults? A systematic review and Bayesian network meta-analysis [2022]

• BMJ Open
  • Effects of different exercise interventions on body composition in women with overweight and obesity: a systematic review and network meta-analysis [2026]

• Current Obesity Reports
  • Integrating Policies that Enable Minimally Processed Foods with Policies that Restrict Ultra-Processed Foods for Obesity and Noncommunicable Disease Prevention [2026]
  • Cross-Sector Policies for Achieving Equitable Obesity Prevention and Food Security: A Review of Real-World Actions [2026]
  • Food Policy Approaches to Obesity Prevention: An International Perspective [2014]

• European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • WHO guideline on the use of non-sugar sweeteners: a need for reconsideration [2023]

• Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research
  • Systematic review on the use of cost-benefit analysis to evaluate food environment interventions [2025]

• International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
  • Comparing caloric restriction regimens for effective weight management in adults: a systematic review and network meta-analysis [2024]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Progress Evaluation for Transnational Restaurant Chains to Reformulate Products and Standardize Portions to Meet Healthy Dietary Guidelines and Reduce Obesity and Non-Communicable Disease Risks, 2000–2018: A Scoping and Systematic Review to Inform Policy [2019]

• International Journal of Obesity
  • International Study of Objectively-measured Physical Activity and Sedentary Time with Body Mass Index and Obesity: IPEN Adult Study [2015]

• JAMA Network Open
  • Aerobic Exercise and Weight Loss in Adults: A Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-Analysis [2024]

• JNMA: Journal of the Nepal Medical Association
  • Synergistic Effects of Combined Diet and Exercise on Body Composition in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2025]

• Journal of Obesity
  • Efficacy of Interventions to Promote Exercise Adherence in People With Overweight or Obesity: A Systematic Review [2026]

• Lancet Planetary Health
  • Health and nutritional aspects of sustainable diet strategies and their association with environmental impacts: a global modelling analysis with country-level detail [2018]

• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
  • Sustainable Diets, Food, and Nutrition: Proceedings of a Workshop [2019]
  • Redesigning the Process for Establishing the Dietary Guidelines for Americans [2017]
  • Optimizing the Process for Establishing the Dietary Guidelines for Americans: The Selection Process [2017]

• Nutrients
  • The Effects of Time-Restricted Eating on Fat Loss in Adults with Overweight and Obese Depend upon the Eating Window and Intervention Strategies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2024]
  • Ultra-Processed Food Consumption and Incidence of Obesity and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Adults: A Systematic Review of Prospective Studies [2023]

• PLoS Medicine
  • Artificially Sweetened Beverages and the Response to the Global Obesity Crisis [2017]

• PLoS ONE
  • Partially unraveling mechanistic underpinning and weight loss effects of time-restricted eating across diverse adult populations: A systematic review and meta-analyses of prospective studies [2025]

• Sports Medicine
  • Reallocating Time Between 24-h Movement Behaviors for Obesity Management Across the Lifespan: A Pooled Data Meta-Analysis of More Than 9800 Participants from Seven Countries [2025]

• World Obesity Federation
  • The Role of Physical Activity in the Prevention and Management of Obesity: A Position Statement From the World Obesity Federation [2026]

Italy

• Current Nutrition Reports
  • A New Nomenclature for the Very Low-Calorie Ketogenic Diet (VLCKD): Very Low-Energy Ketogenic Therapy (VLEKT). Ketodiets and Nutraceuticals Expert Panels: "KetoNut", Italian Society of Nutraceuticals (SINut) and the Italian Association of Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition (ADI) [2024]

• Journal of Endocrinological Investigation
  • Ketogenic nutritional therapy (KeNuT)-a multi-step dietary model with meal replacements for the management of obesity and its related metabolic disorders: a consensus statement from the working group of the Club of the Italian Society of Endocrinology (SIE)-diet therapies in endocrinology and metabolism [2024]

Japan

• Nutrients
  • Trends in Food Group Intake According to Body Size among Young Japanese Women: The 2001-2019 National Health and Nutrition Survey [2022]

Jordan

• Medicine
  • Insights on eating behaviors among adult females in Jordan: A national survey study [2025]

Latin America

• Cadernos de Saúde Pública
  • Trends in dietary patterns of Latin American populations [2003]

• Pan American Health Organization
  • Ultra-processed food and drink products in Latin America: Sales, sources, nutrient profiles, and policy implications [2019]
  • Ultra-processed food and drink products in Latin America: Trends, impact on obesity, policy implications [2015]

Latin America and the Caribbean

• Pan American Health Organization
  • Sugar-sweetened Beverage Tax Indicators in Latin America and the Caribbean [2022]
  • Healthy Food: A Human Rights-based Approach [2022]
  • Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2021: Statistics and Trends [2021]

Lebanon

• BMC Public Health
  • Diet, physical activity and socio-economic disparities of obesity in Lebanese adults: findings from a national study [2015]

Low and middle income countries

• BMJ Global Health
  • Obesogenicity of food in the informal food retail environment of low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review [2025]

Malaysia

• Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Intake of added sugar in Malaysia: a review [2016]

• BMC Public Health
  • Physical activity and overweight/obesity among Malaysian adults: findings from the 2015 National Health and morbidity survey (NHMS) [2017]

• PLoS ONE
  • Spatial analysis of fast-food accessibility and obesity among adults in Malaysia nationwide [2025]

Middle-income countries

• PLoS ONE
  • Taxes on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages to Reduce Overweight and Obesity in Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review [2016]

Netherlands

• Nutrients
  • Total, Free, and Added Sugar Consumption and Adherence to Guidelines: The Dutch National Food Consumption Survey 2007–2010 [2016]

• SSM - Population Health
  • The association of unhealthy and healthy food store accessibility with obesity prevalence among adults in the Netherlands: A spatial analysis [2022]

New Zealand

• Nutrients
  • Exploring the Dietary Patterns of Young New Zealand Women and Associations with BMI and Body Fat [2016]

Peru

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Reformulation of Top-Selling Processed and Ultra-Processed Foods and Beverages in the Peruvian Food Supply after Front-of-Package Warning Label Policy [2022]

• Nutrients
  • The Fruit Intake-Adiposity Paradox: Findings from a Peruvian Cross-Sectional Study [2023]
  • Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption in Adults: Evidence from a National Health Survey in Peru [2022]

Poland

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Sugar tax in Poland: population-level trends in obesity, sugar consumption and healthcare utilization [2026]

• Nutrients
  • Public Awareness of Diet-Related Diseases and Dietary Risk Factors: A 2022 Nationwide Cross-Sectional Survey among Adults in Poland [2022]
  • A National Study of Nutrition and Nutritional Status of the Adult Polish Population in the Years 2017–2020 before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic—Design and Methods [2021]

• Przeglad Menopauzalny = Menopause Review
  • Guidelines for dietary management of menopausal women with simple obesity [2015]

Republic of Korea

• Diabetes & Metabolism Journal
  • Health Effects of Sugar-Sweetened and Artificially Sweetened Beverages: Umbrella Review and Evidence-Based Consensus Statement of the Korean Diabetes Association and the Korean Nutrition Society [2026]
  • Effect of Carbohydrate-Restricted Diets and Intermittent Fasting on Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, and Hypertension Management: Consensus Statement of the Korean Society for the Study of Obesity, Korean Diabetes Association, and Korean Society of Hypertension [2022]

• Epidemiology and Health
  • Positive association of unhealthy plant-based diets with the incidence of abdominal obesity in Korea: a comparison of baseline, most recent, and cumulative average diets [2022]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches for Weight Management in the Obese Population: The 2018 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey [2021]

• Nutrition Journal
  • Secular trends in dietary patterns among Korean adults: using data from the 2007-2022 Korea National health and nutrition examination survey [2025]

• PLoS ONE
  • Trends in obesity, leisure-time physical activity, and sedentary behavior in Korean adults: Korea national health and nutritional examinations survey from 2014 to 2021 [2024]
  • Associations between Physical Activity and Obesity Defined by Waist-To-Height Ratio and Body Mass Index in the Korean Population [2016]

Russia

• WHO European Region
  • Nutrition labelling and nutrient composition of food products in the Russian Federation: assessment summary [2023]

Samoa

• American Journal of Human Biology
  • Long-term trends in food availability, food prices, and obesity in Samoa [2012]

Saudi Arabia

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Dietary trends and obesity in Saudi Arabia [2024]

Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

• Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
  • A review of sugar-sweetened beverages taxation in Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates [2024]

Singapore

• Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Dietary guidelines in Singapore [2011]

South Africa

• BMC Public Health
  • Evidence to support a food-based dietary guideline on sugar consumption in South Africa [2012]

• South African Medical Journal
  • Physical activity in obesity management [2025]
  • Medical nutrition therapy in obesity management [2025]

South-East Asia, Western Pacific

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • National nutrition surveillance programmes in 18 countries in South-East Asia and Western Pacific Regions: a systematic scoping review [2023]

Spain

• PLoS ONE
  • Adherence to dietary guidelines for the Spanish population and risk of overweight/obesity in the SUN cohort [2019]

Switzerland

• BMJ Open
  • Trends in physical fitness performance and body mass index of Swiss military conscripts, 2006-2024: a cross-sectional study [2026]

• Nutrients
  • The Importance of Sweet Beverage Definitions When Targeting Health Policies—The Case of Switzerland [2020]
  • The Contribution of Diet Quality to Socioeconomic Inequalities in Obesity: A Population-based Study of Swiss Adults [2019]

Taiwan

• Journal of Nutritional Science
  • Relationship between overweight and obesity and insufficient micronutrient intake: a nationwide study in Taiwan [2023]

Thailand

• Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Food based dietary guidelines (FBDGs) development and promotion in Thailand [2011]

United Kingdom

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Outcomes of sugar reduction policies, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland [2024]

• Department of Health and Social Care
  • Restricting promotions of products high in fat, sugar or salt by location and by volume price
  • Healthy eating

• Lancet Public Health
  • Effect of calorie labelling in the out-of-home food sector on adult obesity prevalence, cardiovascular mortality, and social inequalities in England: a modelling study [2024]

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Evidence reviews for the effectiveness of different diets in achieving and maintaining weight loss [2025]

• Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
  • The Eatwell Guide
  • Healthy eating: applying All Our Health

• Public Health England
  • Healthy weight environments: using the planning system
  • Health matters: obesity and the food environment

• Scottish Government
  • Diet and healthy weight monitoring report

• UK Parliament
  • Debate on the impact of food and diet on obesity [2025]

United States

• Advances in Nutrition
  • What Do Government Agencies Consider in the Debate Over Added Sugars? [2013]

• American College of Sports Medicine
  • Physical Activity and Excess Body Weight and Adiposity for Adults. American College of Sports Medicine Consensus Statement [2024]

• American Heart Association
  • Role of Physical Activity in Obesity Treatment and Cardiometabolic Health: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association [2026]
  • Popular Dietary Patterns: Alignment With American Heart Association 2021 Dietary Guidance: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association [2023]
  • Implementing American Heart Association Pediatric and Adult Nutrition Guidelines [2009]
  • Diet and Lifestyle Recommendations Revision 2006: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association Nutrition Committee [2006]
  • Dietary Recommendations for Children and Adolescents: A Guide for Practitioners: Consensus Statement From the American Heart Association [2005]

• Annual Review of Nutrition
  • Make America Healthy, Again? The Past, Present and Future of Dietary Guidelines [2025]

• BMJ Open
  • What is the cost-effectiveness of menu calorie labelling on reducing obesity-associated cancer burdens? An economic evaluation of a federal policy intervention among 235 million adults in the USA [2023]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Prevalence of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake Among Adults — 23 States and the District of Columbia, 2013 [2016]
  • The State of Evaluation Research on Food Policies to Reduce Obesity and Diabetes Among Adults in the United States, 2000–2011 [2015]
  • Nutrition
  • Exercise or Physical Activity

• Dietary Guidelines for Americans
  • Professional Resources

• International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
  • Calorie menu labeling on quick-service restaurant menus: an updated systematic review of the literature [2011]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Variations in Obesity Rates between US Counties: Impacts of Activity Access, Food Environments, and Settlement Patterns [2017]

• JAMA
  • Behavioral Treatment of Obesity in Patients Encountered in Primary Care Settings: A Systematic Review [2014]

• Journal of Nutrition
  • Impact of Simulated Caloric Reduction on Nutrient Adequacy Among U.S. Adults with Overweight or Obesity (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey [NHANES] 2015-2018) [2024]
  • Compliance with U.S. Government Nutrition Advice and Concurrent Obesity Trends Using Nurses' Health Study Data, 1980-2011 [2024]
  • The Healthy Eating Index-2010 Is a Valid and Reliable Measure of Diet Quality According to the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans [2014]

• Journal of Obesity
  • A Study of the Relationship between Food Group Recommendations and Perceived Stress: Findings from Black Women in the Deep South [2015]
  • Weight Loss Maintenance in African American Women: A Systematic Review of the Behavioral Lifestyle Intervention Literature [2013]

• Mayo Clinic Proceedings
  • The Inadmissibility of ‘What We Eat In America’ (WWEIA) and NHANES Dietary Data in Nutrition & Obesity Research and the Scientific Formulation of National Dietary Guidelines [2015]

• Methodist DeBakey Cardiovascular Journal
  • Food Chain and Food Policies: Causes and Solutions for the Obesity Pandemic [2025]

• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
  • Evaluating the Process to Develop the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025: Final Report [2022]

• National Academies Press
  • Physical Activity: Moving Toward Obesity Solutions: Workshop Summary [2015]

• Nutrients
  • A Diet for Healthy Weight: Why Reaching a Consensus Seems Difficult [2020]

• Nutrition Journal
  • Demographic and socioeconomic factors associated with self-reported diet and physical lifestyle patterns in United States women: an NHANES study [2025]
  • Whole grain consumption trends and associations with body weight measures in the United States: results from the cross sectional National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2001–2012 [2016]
  • Are restrictive guidelines for added sugars science based? [2015]

• Nutrition.gov
  • Nutrition.gov

• Obesity Medicine Association
  • Nutrition and physical activity: An Obesity Medicine Association (OMA) Clinical Practice Statement 2022 [2022]

• Obesity Reviews
  • Trends in adherence to physical activity guidelines from 1997 to 2018 among adults with obesity: An analysis from the US National Health Interview Survey [2025]
  • A systematic scoping review of the literacy literature to develop a digital food and nutrition literacy model for low-income adults to make healthy choices in the online food retail ecosystem to reduce obesity risk [2022]

• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
  • Dietary Guidelines for Americans

Vietnam

• Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Food based dietary guidelines in Vietnam: progress and lessons learned [2011]

• PLoS ONE
  • Estimating the health impacts of sugar-sweetened beverage tax for informing policy decisions about the obesity burden in Vietnam [2023]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Supporting healthy diets and safe foods in urban food environments [2026]
  • Global report on the use of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes, 2025 [2025]
  • What are healthy diets? Joint statement by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization [2024]
  • Guidance for monitoring healthy diets globally [2024]
  • Fiscal policies to promote healthy diets: WHO guideline [2024]
  • Use of non-sugar sweeteners: WHO guideline [2023]
  • Total fat intake for the prevention of unhealthy weight gain in adults and children: WHO guideline [2023]
  • Healthy diet metrics: a suitability assessment of indicators for global and national monitoring purposes [2023]
  • Healthier food and healthier food environments at sports events: an action guide for sports event organizers [2023]
  • Harmonizing and mainstreaming the measurement of healthy diets: technical expert meeting, Bellagio, Italy, 28 November-2 December 2022 [2023]
  • Global report on the use of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes, 2023 [2023]
  • Carbohydrate intake for adults and children: WHO guideline [2023]
  • WHO manual on sugar-sweetened beverage taxation policies to promote healthy diets [2022]
  • The nutrition challenge: food system solutions [2022]
  • Reformulation of food and beverage products for healthier diets: policy brief [2022]
  • Nutrition labelling: policy brief [2022]
  • Health effects of the use of non-sugar sweeteners: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
  • Fiscal policies to promote healthy diets: policy brief [2022]
  • Report of the technical consultation on measuring healthy diets: concepts, methods and metrics [2021]
  • Implementing policies to restrict food marketing: a review of contextual factors [2021]
  • Implementing nutrition labelling policies: a review of contextual factors [2021]
  • Implementing fiscal and pricing policies to promote healthy diets: a review of contextual factors [2021]
  • Food systems for health: information brief [2021]
  • Action framework for developing and implementing public food procurement and service policies for a healthy diet [2021]
  • Mobilizing ambitious and impactful commitments for mainstreaming nutrition in health systems: nutrition in universal health coverage – global nutrition summit [2020]
  • Sustainable healthy diets: guiding principles [2019]
  • Strengthening nutrition action: a resource guide for countries based on the policy recommendations of the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) [2018]
  • Global recommendations on physical activity for health [2010]
  • Physical Activity
  • Healthy diet: Fact sheet
  • Healthy diet

WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region

• Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
  • Situation analysis of sugar-sweetened beverages taxation in Eastern Mediterranean Region [2024]

• WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
  • Summary report on the Regional meeting on tackling obesity in the Eastern Mediterranean Region with more focus on healthy diet [2019]
  • Promoting a healthy diet for the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region: user-friendly guide [2012]

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