Mexico

Food EPI

Nieto, C., Rodríguez.E, Sánchez‐Bazán, K., Tolentino‐Mayo, L., Carriedo‐Lutzenkirchen, A., Vandevijvere, S. & Barquera, S. (2019). The INFORMAS healthy food environment policy index (Food‐EPI) in Mexico: An assessment of implementation gaps and priority recommendations. Obesity Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.12814

Vandevijvere S, Barquera S, Caceres G, Corvalan C, Karupaiah T, Kroker-Lobos MF, L’Abbé M, Ng SH, Phulkerd S, Ramirez-Zea M, Rebello SA, Reyes M, Sacks G, Sánchez Nóchez CM, Sanchez K, Sanders D, Spires M, Swart R, Tangcharoensathien V, Tay Z, Taylor A, Tolentino-Mayo L, Van Dam R, Vanderlee L, Watson F, Whitton C, Swinburn B. An 11-country study to benchmark the implementation of recommended nutrition policies by national governments using the Healthy Food Environment Policy Index, 2015-2018. Obes Rev. 2019 Jan 4. doi: 10.1111/obr.12819.

Food composition

Morales-Avilez D, Cruz-Casarrubias C, Tolentino-Mayo L, Encalada-Torres L, Abril-Ulloa V. Evaluation of the Accurateness of the Nutritional Labels of Processed and Ultra-Processed Products Available in Supermarkets of Ecuador. 2020 Nov 13;12(11):3481. doi: 10.3390/nu12113481

Palos Lucio AG, Sansores Martínez DN, Olvera Miranda C, Quezada Méndez L, Tolentino-Mayo L. Nutritional Quality of Fast Food Kids Meals and Their Contribution to the Diets of School-Aged Children. 2020 Feb 26;12(3):612. doi: 10.3390/nu12030612.

Dunford EK, Ni Mhurchu C, Huang L, Vandevijvere S, Swinburn B, Pravst I, Tolentino-Mayo L, Reyes M, L’Abbe M, Neal BC. A comparison of the healthiness of packaged foods and beverages from 12 countries using the Health Star Rating nutrient profiling system, 2013-2018. Obes Rev. 2019 Jul 22. doi: 10.1111/obr.12879.

Nieto C, Tolentino-Mayo L, Medina C, Monterrubio-Flores E, Denova-Gutiérrez E, Barquera S. Sodium Content of Processed Foods Available in the Mexican Market. 2018 Dec 19;10(12). pii: E2008. doi: 10.3390/nu10122008.

Dunford EK, Taillie LS, Miles DR, Eyles H, Tolentino-Mayo L, Ng SW. Non-Nutritive Sweeteners in the Packaged Food Supply-An Assessment across 4 Countries. 2018 Feb 24;10(2). pii: E257. doi: 10.3390/nu10020257.

Nieto C, Rincon-Gallardo Patino S, Tolentino-Mayo L, Carriedo A, Barquera S. Characterization of Breakfast Cereals Available in the Mexican Market: Sodium and Sugar Content. Nutrients. 2017;9(8). doi: 10.3390/nu9080884.

Food labelling

Tolentino-Mayo L, Sagaceta-Mejía J, Cruz-Casarrubias C, Ríos-Cortázar V, Jauregui A, Barquera S. Understanding and use of the front-of-pack Guideline Daily Amounts nutritional labeling of industrialized food and beverages in Mexico. Salud Publica Mex. 2020;62:786-797. https://doi.org/10.21149/11568

Tolentino-Mayo L, Rincón-Gallardo Patiño S, Bahena-Espina L, Ríos V, Barquera S. Knowledge and use of nutrient labelling of industrialized foods and beverages in Mexico. Salud Publica Mex. 2018 May-Jun;60(3):328-337. doi: 10.21149/8825

Contreras-Manzano A, Jáuregui A, Velasco-Bernal A, Vargas-Meza J, Rivera JA, Tolentino-Mayo L, Barquera S. Comparative Analysis of the Classification of Food Products in the Mexican Market According to Seven Different Nutrient Profiling Systems. 2018 Jun 7;10(6). pii: E737. doi: 10.3390/nu10060737.

Cruz-Casarrubias C, Munguia A, Tolentino-Mayo L, Barquera S. Use of health and nutritional endorsements in unhealthy food and beverages in Mexico: opportunity to avoid misleading information. Salud Pública de México.Vol. 62 Núm 3, 2020. https://doi.org/ 10.21149/11234

Cruz-Casarrubias C, Tolentino-Mayo L, Nieto C, Théodore FL, Monterrubio-Flores E. Use of advertising strategies to target children in sugar-sweetened beverages packaging in Mexico and the nutritional quality of those beverages. Pediatr Obes. 2021;16:1–10.

• Papers/projects under development:
  • Nutritional profile and price of the top purchased products before the implementation of FOP warning labels in Mexico.
  • Advertising content aimed at children, health endorsements and health claims of the top purchased products before the implementation of the FOP warning labeling.
  • Types and prevalence of non-caloric sweeteners of the top purchased products in Mexico before the implementation of the FOP warning labeling
  • Types and prevalence of all type of sweeteners of the top purchased products before the implementation of the FOP warning labeling in Mexico
  • A methodology paper on the development and purpose of the NutrINSPector system

Food promotion

Kelly B, Vandevijvere S, Ng S, Adams J, Allemandi L, Bahena-Espina L, Barquera S, Boyland E, Calleja P, Carmona-Garcés IC, Castronuovo L, Cauchi D, Correa T, Corvalán C, Cosenza-Quintana EL, Fernández-Escobar C, González-Zapata LI, Halford J, Jaichuen N, Jensen ML, Karupaiah T, Kaur A, Kroker-Lobos MF, Mchiza Z, Miklavec K, Parker WA, Potvin Kent M, Pravst I, Ramírez-Zea M, Reiff S, Reyes M, Royo-Bordonada MÁ, Rueangsom P, Scarborough P, Tiscornia MV, Tolentino-Mayo L, Wate J, White M, Zamora-Corrales I, Zeng L, Swinburn B. Global benchmarking of children’s exposure to television advertising of unhealthy foods and beverages across 22 countries. Obes Rev. 2019 Apr 11. doi: 10.1111/obr.12840

Theodore FL, Tolentino-Mayo L, Hernandez-Zenil E, Bahena L, Velasco A, Popkin B, et al. Pitfalls of the self-regulation of advertisements directed at children on Mexican television. Pediatr Obes. 2017;12(4):312-9. doi: 10.1111/ijpo.12144.

Rincon-Gallardo Patino, S., Tolentino-Mayo, L., Flores Monterrubio, E.A., Wandevijvere, S., Rivera J.A., Barguera, S. 2016. Nutritional quality of foods and non-alcoholic beverages advertised on Mexican television according to three nutrient profile models. BMC public Health, 16(733), 1-11, DOI: 10.1186/s12889-016-3298-0

Cruz-Casarrubias C, Munguia A, Tolentino-Mayo L, Barquera S. Use of health and nutritional endorsements in unhealthy food and beverages in Mexico: opportunity to avoid misleading information. Salud Pública de México.Vol. 62 Núm 3, 2020. https://doi.org/ 10.21149/11234

Munguia A, Tolentino-Mayo L, Théodore FL, Vandevijvere S. Nutritional Quality of Hidden Food and Beverage Advertising Directed to Children: Extent and Nature of Product Placement in Mexican Television Programs. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 3086; doi:10.3390/ijerph17093086.

Food prices

• Completed work, manuscripts under review:
  • Price trends of healthy and unhealthy foods in Mexico from 2011-2018. (INFORMAS foods approach). Carolina Batis, Joaquín Marrón, Giovanna Gatica, Arantxa Colchero, Juan Rivera, Simón Barquera, Dalia Stern
  • Cost comparison between healthy, sustainable, and current diet baskets in Mexico: a modeling study. (INFORMAS diets approach) Carolina Batis, Dalia Stern, Joaquín Marrón, Juan Rivera, Simón Barquera, Stefanie Vandevijvere
• Current work:
  • Participation in Project “Towards harmonized indicators for measuring progress on creating healthy and sustainable food systems” (Funder: IDRC, PI: Stefanie Vandevijvere, Co-Investigators from INSP: Carolina Batis and Mishel Unar).
  • Food prices overarching goal: update protocol and integrate environmental indicators and sustainable scenarios to the diets approach.

Food retail

• Papers/projects under development:
  • A Toolkit to evaluate commercial food retail environments in both English and Spanish, which includes a guiding document and nine accompanying annexes
  • Report “Piloting a preliminary Toolkit that evaluates commercial food retail environments: Results and insights from Latin America,” which includes an overview of the results from the pilots and case studies from Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Mexico and final recommendations for retailers and private sector, decision makers, civil society, and academia
  • Manuscript “Developing and piloting a Toolkit to evaluate commercial food retail environments”
  • Manuscript “An evaluation of online food retail in Mexico: Marketing strategies used by 3 largest supermarkets during a holiday vs. non holiday period”
  • Manuscript “A survey of food retailers in Latin America to evaluate practices and policies”

Food provision

Jimenez-Aguilar A, Morales-Ruan MDC, Lopez-Olmedo N, Theodore F, Moreno-Saracho J, Tolentino-Mayo L, et al. The fight against overweight and obesity in school children: Public policy in Mexico. J Public Health Policy. 2017;38(4):407-28. doi: 10.1057/s41271-017-0090-