Recent research reveals that trade deals don’t block nutrition policies in small island nations but rather pose hurdles that can slow or water down efforts to curb obesity and diet-related diseases.Published in Globalization and Health, the study blames trade liberalization as a major contributor to obesogenic food environments worldwide. “What has been coined the ‘neoliberal diet’ consists of low-cost, high-calorie, low-nutritional value foods that favor taste and cost-saving over nutrition and are often high in fat, salt, and sugar.”
