While many restaurants have healthy options for kids, such options are rarely advertised. This undermines efforts to encourage healthy choices. The focus of recent Ask the Professor posts has been how ...

A study looked at a year of TV ads on a major, free channel in Australia. A new study in Australia looked at how much junk food advertising kids were exposed to and the numbers were staggering. Food ...

NEW YORK — Ten food and beverage manufacturers pledged their commitment to the voluntary Children's Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative. Children's ads will more frequently contain messages about ...

Children’s exposure to food and drink ads during kids’ TV shows has dropped substantially since food and beverage makers pledged to stop advertising unhealthy fare during children’s TV shows. Yet, ...

Children's exposure to food and drink ads during kids' TV shows has dropped substantially since food and beverage makers pledged to stop advertising unhealthy fare during children's TV shows. Yet, ...

Exposure to junk food advertisements (relative to non-food) results in children and adolescents consuming significantly more calories during the day, regardless of the type of media advertising, ...

WASHINGTON >> The U.S. government will address what it sees as an epidemic of chronic illness among American children, calling for changes such as offering full-fat milk in cafeterias and limiting ...

High sugar cereal brands target TV ads directly to kids under age 12. And this targeted advertising leads to greater household purchases of unhealthy kid cereals, a new study finds. High-sugar cereal ...

US can't address obesity crisis "unless the marketing is drastically lowered." The inundation of junk food advertising is contributing to the rising rate of teen obesity -- a public health crisis ...

Healthy Foods For Kids: Nowadays, even the children of the house have started liking to eat outside junk food. This kind of unhealthy diet has a negative effect on the mental and physical health of ...