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Communicating evidence about the environment's role in obesity and support for government policies to tackle obesity: A systematic review with meta-analysis (2020)
Journal Article
Reynolds, J., Vasiljevic, M., Pilling, M., & Marteau, T. (2022). Communicating evidence about the environment's role in obesity and support for government policies to tackle obesity: A systematic review with meta-analysis. Health Psychology Review, 16(1), 67-80. https://doi.org/10.1080/17437199.2020.1829980

Public support for many policies that tackle obesity by changing environments is low. This may reflect commonly held causal beliefs about obesity, namely that it is due to failures of self-control rather than environmental influences. Several studies... Read More about Communicating evidence about the environment's role in obesity and support for government policies to tackle obesity: A systematic review with meta-analysis.

Communicating evidence about the causes of obesity and support for obesity policies: Two population-based survey experiments (2020)
Journal Article
Reynolds, J., Vasiljevic, M., Pilling, M., Hall, M., Ribisl, K., & Marteau, T. (2020). Communicating evidence about the causes of obesity and support for obesity policies: Two population-based survey experiments. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(18), Article 6539. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186539

Public support for numerous obesity policies is low, which is one barrier to their implementation. One reason for this low support is the tendency to ascribe obesity to failings of willpower as opposed to the environment. Correlational evidence suppo... Read More about Communicating evidence about the causes of obesity and support for obesity policies: Two population-based survey experiments.