RESOURCES

 

Toward Health Equity: A Workshop Report on the State of the Science of Obesity Interventions for Adults. 

Laura Schmidt and others, September 2025, Obesity

 

Caution is prescribed for American Academy of Paediatrics’ guidelines on weight loss medications for childhood obesity

Luc L Hagenaars, Lisa A Bero, Bibian van der Voorn, Laura Schmidt, July 2025, BMJ

 

The New Tobacco

Laura Schmidt. June 27, 2025, UC Berkeley Public Affairs 

 

The Ozempic Era Could Shift Blame for Obesity From Individuals to Commercial Food Systems

Laura Schmidt and Luc Hagenaars, Spring 2025, Issues in Science and Technology

 

The Impossible Math of Philanthropy

Taparia, H and Buchanan, B. February 3, 2025, New York Times Op Ed

 

SNAP shouldn’t subsidize America’s obesity epidemic

Schmidt, LS, Taparia, H, and Lustig, R. February 2, 2025, The Hill

 

The Bittersweet Truth About Sugar

Laura Schmidt, October 25, 2024, CNN-Chasing Life PodCast

 

Characteristics and Trends in Child Cannabis Exposures During Legalization in California

Laura Schmidt, Laurie Jacobs, Ellicott Matthay, James Roake, Justin Lewis, Raymond Ho, Dorie Apollonio, 2025, AJPM

 

Why, Exactly, Are Ultraprocessed Foods So Hard to Resist? This Study is Trying to Find Out.

Alice Callahan, July 30, 2024, New York Times

 

The Toxic Truth About Sugar

Robert Lustig, Laura Schmidt, Claire Brindis, 2012, Nature

 

NOURISH Reimagines the Food Business to Try to Prevent Food Deserts

Thomas Fudge, April 22, 2024, KPBS

 

The Lie That Made Food Conglomerates Rich...And Is Slowly Poisoning Us, Part 1.

Tera Fazzino, April 11, 2024, More Perfect Union Podcast</p>

 

Using AI and Data Science to ReNOURISH Food Deserts.

Cynthia Dillon, April 4, 2024, UC San Diego Today

 

Is Our Junk Food Addiction Killing Us? 

Tera Fazzino, January 30, 2024, Cambridge Forum on Ultra-Processed Foods and Public Health

 

Addictive Eating: How Hyper-Palatable Foods are Reshaping Our Diets.

Tera Fazzino, Episode #298. January 29, 2024, The Proof Podcast

 

Controlled Trial of a Workplace Sales Ban on Sugar-sweetened Beverages


Jamey M Schmidt, Elissa S Epel, Laurie M Jacobs, Ashley E Mason, Bethany Parrett, Amanda M Pickett, Leyla M Mousli and Laura A Schmidt, 2023, PHN

 

New AI Platform Addresses Challenge of Food Deserts in Low-Income Communities

James Roake, Cynthia Dillion, April 13, 2023, UC San Diego Today

 

Community Governed Capitalism

Hans Taparia, 2022, ABIS Colloquium - Research track: Leveraging corporate governance and the roll of boards

 

Food and Beverage Industry Interference in Science and Policy: Efforts to Block Soda Tax Implementation in Mexico and Prevent International Diffusion

Andrea Pedroza-Tobias, Eric Crosbie, Melissa Mialon, Angela Carriedo, Laura A Schmidt, 2021, BMJ

 

Transferring Racial/Ethnic Marketing Strategies from Tobacco to Food Corporations: Philip Morris and Kraft General Foods

Kim H. Nguyen, Stanton A. Glantz, Casey N. Palmer, Laura A. Schmidt, 2020, AJPH

 

How Covid-19 Is Making Millions of Americans Healthier

Hans Taparia, April 18, 2020, The New York Times

 

The Past, Present and Future of Food

Hans Taparia, 2018, TEDx

 

Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease ResearchA Historical Analysis of Internal Industry Documents

Cristin E. Kearns, Laura A. Schmidt, Stanton A. Glantz, 2016, JAMA

 

A Seismic Shift in How People Eat

Hans Taparia, Pamela Koch, November 6, 2015, The New York Times
 

 

Why We Can't Stop Eating Unhealthy Foods.

Laura Schmidt, September 2015, TEDMED Talk