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Slowing Down Fast Food: A policy guide for healthier kids and families

Publisher: Corporate Accountability International

Author(s): Monica Gagnon, Nicholas Freudenberg

Published Date: 2012

Document Type: Report

Format: Electronic

Free of Cost: Yes

This report focuses on local policy approaches that address fast food.  Four policy approaches are addressed: school policy, “healthy” zoning, curbing kid-focused marketing, and redirecting subsidies to healthier businesses, which all can help planners shape the food environment. The report includes an Action Guide that provides practical guidance for turning ideas into actions in order to create healthier food environments.

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Growing Food Connections Topic(s): community food security

Main Food Topics: food access, food availability, food democracy, food policy, food retail, healthy food, participatory action, social justice

Geographic Scale: Municipality, Region, Urban

Addresses food security needs of underserved populations: Yes