Marketing Junk Foods to Children
Understanding how food marketing to children and teens contributes to obesity: This major new initiative evaluates youth exposure to food marketing and its impact, determines how the issue is perceived by the public and policy makers, and develops a plan to reduce the harm associated with food marketing to youth. An expert panel of leaders in the nutrition, public health, and marketing fields will advise us.
For more information:
- Examples of policies to reduce marketing junk foods to children
- Federal legislation filed in the current (110th) Congress
- Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood
- Campaign for a Commercial Free Education
- Commercialism in Education Research Unit
- Corporations and Health Watch
- Federal Communications Commission, Task Force on Media and Childhood Obesity
- National Institute on Media and the Family
- The Center on Alcohol Marketing to Youth at Georgetown University
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