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Publications by research themes

 The NOVA classification

  • Moubarac JC, Parra DC, Cannon G, Monteiro CA. Food Classification Systems Based on Food Processing: Significance and Implications for Policies and Actions: A Systematic Literature Review and Assessment. Curr Obes Rep. 2014 Jun;3(2):256-72. doi: 10.1007/s13679-014-0092-0. PMID: 26626606.

  • Monteiro CA, Cannon G, Moubarac JC, Levy RB, Louzada MLC, Jaime PC. The UN Decade of Nutrition, the NOVA food classification and the disorder with ultra-processing. Public Health Nutr. 2018 Jan;21(1):5-17. doi:10.1017/S1368980017000234. Epub 2017 Mar 21. PMID: 28322183.

  • Monteiro CA, Cannon G, Levy RB, Moubarac JC, Louzada ML, Rauber F, KhandpurN, Cediel G, Neri D, Martinez-Steele E, Baraldi LG, Jaime PC. Ultra-processed foods: what they are and how to identify them. Public Health Nutr. 2019Apr;22(5):936-941. doi: 10.1017/S1368980018003762. Epub 2019 Feb 12. PMID:30744710.

  • Menegassi B, de Morais Sato P, Scagliusi FB, Moubarac JC. Comparing the waysa sample of Brazilian adults classify food with the NOVA food classification: Anexploratory insight. Appetite. 2019 Jun 1;137:226-235. doi:10.1016/j.appet.2019.03.010. Epub 2019 Mar 9. PMID: 30862456.

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  Consumption trends of ultra-processed products​

  • Polsky JY, Moubarac JC, Garriguet D. Consumption of ultra-processed foods in Canada. Health Rep. 2020 Nov 18;31(11):3-15. doi: 10.25318/82-003-x202001100001-eng.PMID: 33205938

  • Moubarac JC, Batal M, Martins AP, Claro R, Levy RB, Cannon G, Monteiro C. Processed and ultra-processed food products: consumption trends in Canada from 1938 to 2011. Can J Diet Pract Res. 2014 Spring;75(1):15-21. doi:10.3148/75.1.2014.15. PMID: 24606955.

  • Monteiro CA, Moubarac JC, Cannon G, Ng SW, Popkin B. Ultra-processed products are becoming dominant in the global food system. Obes Rev. 2013 Nov;14 Suppl2:21-8. doi: 10.1111/obr.12107. PMID: 24102801.

  • Vandevijvere S, Jaacks LM, Monteiro CA, Moubarac JC, Girling-Butcher M, Lee AC, Pan A, Bentham J, Swinburn B. Global trends in ultraprocessed food and drink product sales and their association with adult body mass index trajectories. Obes Rev. 2019 Nov;20 Suppl 2:10-19. doi: 10.1111/obr.12860. Epub 2019 May 17. PMID: 31099480.

  • Moubarac JC, Claro RM, Baraldi LG, Levy RB, Martins AP, Cannon G, Monteiro CA. International differences in cost and consumption of ready-to-consume food and drink products: United Kingdom and Brazil, 2008-2009. Glob Public Health.2013;8(7):845-56. doi: 10.1080/17441692.2013.796401. Epub 2013 Jun 4. PMID:23734735.

 

  Ultra-food processing, nutrition and human health 

  • Nardocci M, Polsky JY, Moubarac JC. Consumption of ultra-processed foods is associated with obesity, diabetes and hypertension in Canadian adults. CanJPublic Health. 2020 Nov 10. doi: 10.17269/s41997-020-00429-9. Epub ahead ofprint. PMID: 33174128.

  • Nardocci M, Leclerc BS, Louzada ML, Monteiro CA, Batal M, Moubarac JC. Consumption of ultra-processed foods and obesity in Canada. Can J Public Health.2019 Feb;110(1):4-14. doi: 10.17269/s41997-018-0130-x. Epub 2018 Sep 20.

  • Moubarac JC, Martins AP, Claro RM, Levy RB, Cannon G, Monteiro CA.Consumption of ultra-processed foods and likely impact on human health. Evidence from Canada. Public Health Nutr. 2013 Dec;16(12):2240-8. doi:10.1017/S1368980012005009. Epub 2012 Nov 21. PMID: 23171687.

  • Martínez Steele E, Baraldi LG, Louzada ML, Moubarac JC, Mozaffarian D, Monteiro CA. Ultra-processed foods and added sugars in the US diet: evidence from a nationally representative cross-sectional study. BMJOpen. 2016 Mar9;6(3):e009892. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-009892. PMID: 26962035; PMCID:PMC4785287.

  • Monteiro CA, Moubarac JC, Levy RB, Canella DS, Louzada MLDC, Cannon G. Household availability of ultra-processed foods and obesity in nineteen European countries. Public Health Nutr. 2018 Jan;21(1):18-26. doi:10.1017/S1368980017001379. Epub 2017 Jul 17. PMID: 28714422.

  • Batal M, Johnson-Down L, Moubarac JC, Ing A, Fediuk K, Sadik T, Tikhonov C, Chan L, Willows N. Quantifying associations of the dietary share of ultra-processed foods with overall diet quality in First Nations peoples in theCanadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario. Public Health Nutr. 2018 Jan;21(1):103-113. doi: 10.1017/S1368980017001677. Epub 2017 Jul 25. PMID: 28738909

  • Lavigne-Robichaud M, Moubarac JC, Lantagne-Lopez S, Johnson-Down L, Batal M, Laouan Sidi EA, Lucas M. Diet quality indices in relation to metabolic syndrome in an Indigenous Cree (Eeyouch) population in northern Quebec, Canada. Public Health Nutr. 2018 Jan;21(1):172-180. doi: 10.1017/S136898001700115X. Epub 2017 Jul 7. PMID: 28683844..

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 Transformative food policies

  • Adams J, Hofman K, Moubarac JC, Thow AM. Public health response to ultra-processed food and drinks. BMJ. 2020 Jun 26;369:m2391. doi:10.1136/bmj.m2391.PMID:32591348; PMCID: PMC7318879.

  • Monteiro CA, Cannon G, Moubarac JC, Martins AP, Martins CA, Garzillo J, Canella DS, Baraldi LG, Barciotte M, Louzada ML, Levy RB, Claro RM, Jaime PC.Dietary guidelines to nourish humanity and the planet in the twenty -firstcentury. A blueprint from Brazil. Public Health Nutr. 2015 Sep;18(13):2311-22.doi:10.1017/S1368980015002165. Epub 2015 Jul 24. PMID: 26205679.

  • Davies VF, Moubarac JC, Medeiros KJ, Jaime PC. Applying a food processing-based classification system to a food guide: a qualitative analysis of theBrazilian experience. Public Health Nutr. 2018 Jan;21(1):218-229. doi:10.1017/S1368980017001999. Epub 2017 Aug 29. PMID: 28847335.

  • Moreira PV, Baraldi LG, Moubarac JC, Monteiro CA, Newton A, Capewell S, O'Flaherty M. Comparing different policy scenarios to reduce the consumption of ultra-processed foods in UK: impact on cardiovascular disease mortality using amodelling approach. PLoS One. 2015 Feb 13;10(2):e0118353. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0118353. PMID: 25679527; PMCID: PMC4334511.

  • Moreira PV, Hyseni L, Moubarac JC, Martins APB, Baraldi LG, Capewell S, O'Flaherty M, Guzman-Castillo M. Effects of reducing processed culinaryingredients and ultra-processed foods in the Brazilian diet: a cardiovascularmodelling study. Public Health Nutr. 2018 Jan;21(1):181-188. doi:10.1017/S1368980017002063. Epub 2017 Sep 8. PMID: 28885137

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 Corporate behaviors and public nutrition

  • Monteiro CA, Cannon G, Moubarac JC, Levy RB, Louzada MLC, Jaime PC. Ultra processing. An odd 'appraisal'. Public Health Nutr. 2018 Feb;21(3):497-501. doi:10.1017/S1368980017003287. Epub 2017 Nov 10. PMID: 29122052.

  • Robitaille, MC., Hamel, V. & Moubarac, JC. (2020). Corporate political activities and their influence on public policies: an important issue for public nutrition. Nutrition, Evolving Sciences, volume 18, p.15 to 23.  

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