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Webinar discusses how local governments can reduce food marketing to kids

July 22, 2013

Leadership for Healthy Communities, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is hosting a webinar “Marketing Matters: How Local Governments Can Address Food Marketing to Children” on Thursday, July 25, from 2:00-3:00 p.m. EDT The webinar will provide...
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Nutrition standards won’t fix ‘Big Food’s’ worst child marketing tactics

July 11, 2013

By Michele Simon Last month, I participated in an important panel at a childhood obesity conference to discuss the current strategy backed by some advocacy groups: asking industry to market "healthier" foods to children. But as Susan Linn and I...
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This is your brain on food commercials…

May 14, 2013

By Ashley N. Gearhardt Gooey chocolate and scoops of mouth-watering chocolate ice cream. Steaming hot golden French fries. Children see thousands of commercials each year designed to increase their desire for foods high in sugar, fat, and salt like those...
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Unhealthy ads dominate Spanish children’s television shows

May 13, 2013

By Jacquellena Carrero Latinos have some of the highest rates of obesity in the nation, and the results of a new study show that advertisers may be contributing to the problem. A new study out by the Journal of Health Communication is showing...
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McDonald’s fined in Brazil for pushing Happy Meals to children

April 29, 2013

By Brad Haynes A consumer protection agency in Brazil has taken aim at the Happy Meal, fining McDonald's Corp on April 22 for targeting children with its advertising and toys. The Procon agency in the state of Sao Paulo fined the fast-food company 3.2 million reais...
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Green food labels make nutrition-poor food seem healthy

March 21, 2013

A Cornell researcher says in a forthcoming print issue of Health Communication that consumers are more likely to perceive a candy bar as more healthful when it has a green calorie label compared with when it had a red one—even...
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Food and beverage marketing to children and adolescents: Limited progress by 2012, recommendations for the future

February 20, 2013

For decades, American children and adolescents have been surrounded by advertising and marketing for unhealthy foods and beverages. While the food and beverage industry, as well as local and national levels of government, have started to recognize the role that...
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Obese kids more susceptible to food advertisements, brain scan study suggests

December 4, 2012

By Ryan Jaslow A new study adds to the debate about the role food advertising has in the childhood obesity epidemic. The study, published online Nov. 30 in the Journal of Pediatrics, finds obese children are more vulnerable to the food advertisements...
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Promoting nutrition, Disney to restrict junk-food ads

June 5, 2012

June 5, 2012, The New York Times By Brooks Barnes The Walt Disney Company, in an effort to address concerns about entertainment’s role in childhood obesity, plans to announce on June 5 that all products advertised on its child-focused television channels,...
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Children’s food and beverages fail to live up to health claims on packaging

April 19, 2012

According to new research from Sana Chehimi, MPH, of the Prevention Institute, health claims on children’s food labels are misleading and fail to meet basic nutrient guidelines. Chehimi presented her research last week at the Society for Behavioral Medicine’s 33rd...
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