I've got a dissertation project, of which this blog has sprung into being as I've been taking breaks from putting together grant proposals to fund this project, which means I've got some sense of purpose and a means by which to enter doctoral candidacy!
I'm hoping to share some of my head-in-the-public-health-clouds thoughts here as I make my way through the process of completing my dissertation work. More interesting things coming soon!
for now, let's remember the South Los Angeles fast food moratorium that happened in 2008 well. It turns out it didn't work.
should we have seen this coming? probably.
While the main argument here might be that only 1 year isn't enough time to see changes in the neighborhood food environment, let alone subsequent changes in diet and even further down the line, obesity, I think another problem is that the bill wasn't framed properly. To me, the bill isn't so much a way to dictate what people can and can't eat to make them lose weight, it was an attempt to produce a more equitable food environment. Not having produced effects on both these counts, I wonder how much of this has to do with confusion over the long term goals for this sort of policy or that there is just a dearth of evidence supporting the goal that eventually had the most traction, disproportionately high rates of obesity.
I'll be thinking about this for at least the next month, so I'll have more on this coming.
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