ReviewBulletin of the World Health Organization2019
The palm oil industry and noncommunicable diseases.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Defining the commercial determinants of health: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2020Pooled it
- Confronting corporate power: addressing commercial determinants of health and the rising non-communicable disease epidemic in South-East Asia.BMJ global health · 2026Review
- Do sustainable diets take food processing into account? A scoping review.Public health nutrition · 2026Article
- Adverse commercial determinants of health in low- and middle-income countries: a public health challenge.Health promotion international · 2025Article
- Mechanistic Insight into the Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Activities of Palm Oil-Derived Biomaterials: Implications for Dental and Therapeutic Applications.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Raman on the palm: handheld Raman spectroscopy for enhanced traceability of palm oil.NPJ science of food · 2025Article
- Is Vitamin A Supplementation Campaign Still Justified? A Qualitative Study Exploring Insights From Policymakers and Programme Planners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.Journal of nutrition and metabolism · 2025Article
- Systems biology to unravel Western diet-associated triggers in inflammatory bowel disease.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
- Corporate activities that influence population health: a scoping review and qualitative synthesis to develop the HEALTH-CORP typology.Globalization and health · 2024Article
- Tropical oils consumption and health: a scoping review to inform the development of guidelines in tropical regions.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Water and sediment pesticide contamination on indigenous lands surrounded by oil palm plantations in the Brazilian Amazon.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Differential analysis of transcriptomic and metabolomic of free fatty acid rancidity process in oil palm (Frontiers in plant science · 2023Article
- Balancing functional and health benefits of food products formulated with palm oil as oil sources.Heliyon · 2022Review
- Linoleate-Rich Safflower Oil Diet Increases Linoleate-Derived Bioactive Lipid Mediators in Plasma, and Brown and White Adipose Depots of Healthy Mice.Metabolites · 2022Article
- Survey of nonconventional yeasts for lipid and hydrocarbon biotechnology.Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology · 2022Article
- Growth performance, fatty acid composition, and lipid metabolism are altered in groupers (Animal nutrition (Zhongguo xu mu shou yi xue hui) · 2022Article
- Big food and the World Health Organization: a qualitative study of industry attempts to influence global-level non-communicable disease policy.BMJ global health · 2021Article
- Longitudinal trends of future climate change and oil palm growth: empirical evidence for tropical Africa.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2021Article
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- Oil palm in the 2020s and beyond: challenges and solutions.CABI agriculture and bioscience · 2021Review
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Abstract
Large-scale industries do not operate in isolation, but have tangible impacts on human and planetary health. An often overlooked actor in the fight against noncommunicable diseases is the palm oil industry. The dominance of palm oil in the food processing industry makes it the world's most widely produced vegetable oil. We applied the commercial determinants of health framework to analyse the palm oil industry. We highlight the industry's mutually profitable relationship with the processed food industry and its impact on human and planetary health, including detrimental cultivation practices that are linked to respiratory illnesses, deforestation, loss of biodiversity and pollution. This analysis illustrates many parallels to the contested nature of practices adopted by the alcohol and tobacco industries. The article concludes with suggested actions for researchers, policy-makers and the global health community to address and mitigate the negative impacts of the palm oil industry on human and planetary health.
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