Ethical Considerations for Food and Beverage Warnings.
Food and beverage warnings
ethical considerations
ethics
health warnings
obesity prevention
warning labels
Journal
Physiology & behavior
ISSN: 1873-507X
Titre abrégé: Physiol Behav
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0151504
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 08 2020
01 08 2020
Historique:
received:
02
10
2019
accepted:
16
04
2020
pubmed:
22
5
2020
medline:
22
6
2021
entrez:
22
5
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Several countries have implemented warnings on unhealthy foods and beverages, with similar policies under consideration in the U.S. and around the world. Research demonstrating food warnings' effectiveness is emerging, but limited scholarship has evaluated the ethics of food warning policies. Using a public health ethics framework for evaluating obesity prevention policies, we assessed the ethical strengths and weaknesses of food warnings along multiple dimensions: 1) Health behaviors and physical health, 2) Psychosocial well-being, 3) Social and cultural values, 4) Informed choice, 5) Equality, 6) Attributions of responsibility, 7) Liberty, and 8) Privacy. Our analysis identifies both ethical strengths and weaknesses of food warnings, including that: 1) warnings are likely to generate important benefits including increased consumer understanding and informed choice, healthier purchases, and potential reductions in obesity prevalence; 2) warnings evoke negative emotional reactions, but these reactions are an important mechanism through which food warnings encourage healthier behaviors and promote informed choice; 3) warnings appear unlikely to have ethically unacceptable effects on social and cultural values, attributions of responsibility, liberty, or privacy. Current research suggests we continue to pursue food warnings as a policy option for improving public health while simultaneously conducting additional research on the ethics of these policies. Future research is especially needed to clarify warnings' effects on stigma and to characterize the balance and distribution of costs of and benefits from implementing warning policies.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32434747
pii: S0031-9384(20)30244-4
doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2020.112930
pmc: PMC7321920
mid: NIHMS1595320
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
112930Subventions
Organisme : NHLBI NIH HHS
ID : K01 HL147713
Pays : United States
Organisme : NICHD NIH HHS
ID : P2C HD050924
Pays : United States
Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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