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"Food advertising and marketing directed at children and adolescents in the U.S. Int. J. Behav. Nutr. Phys. Act. 1, 3. 207. Institute of Medicine (U.S.), Committee on Food Marketing and the Diets of Children and Youth, McGinnis, J. M., Gootman, J., and Kraak, V. I. (2006). "Food Marketing to Children: Threat or Opportunity?" National Academies Press, Washington, DC. 208. Kaiser Family Foundation. (2007). "Food for thought: Television food advertising to children in the United States." Available at: http://www.kff.org. 209. Kaiser Family Foundation. (2006). " - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Educate children on the influence of food advertising on eating habits. ?Ban required watching of commercials for foods high in calories, fat, or sugar on school television programs. ?Conduct school-wide media campaigns to promote healthy eating (e.g., the "5 a day message"). ?Emphasize dietary changes that can be implemented on a long-term basis and discourage the use of unhealthy weight control behaviors, which can be counterproductive to weight management and increase risk for eating disorders. ?Modify cafeteria staff food preparation practices (e.g., low-fat food preparation methods)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Recently the Kaiser Family Foundation [208] released the largest study conducted on TV food advertising to children. The study found that children ages 8-12 years see the most food ads on TV, an average of 21 ads a day or more than 7600 per year. The majority of the ads were for candy, snacks, sugared cereals, and fast foods; none of the 8854 ads reviewed was for fruits and vegetables." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Rather, they are shaped by many nutrisocial factors, including upbringing, education, peer pressure, food advertising, and how much (or how little) time we have to cook and eat. We may not be able to alter these nutrisocial forces; however, once we are aware of them, we can limit their impact on us and on our family members. The Nutrisocial Roots of Mood and Behavior Problems The bad moods and behavior that are rampant today result largely from a collision between the stress of contemporary life and nutritional deficiencies and imbalances, which reduce our resistance to this stress." - Jack Challem, The Food-Mood Solution: All-Natural Ways to Banish Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Stress, Overeating, and Alcohol and Drug Problems--and Feel Good Again (Get the book.)

"Where Is Truth in Advertising? Pet food advertising shows prime cuts of beef, plump chickens, whole grains, and fresh vegetables. Pet food manufacturers want us to believe that these are the healthy wholesome ingredients used in their products. This has been very bothersome to me, and I have often questioned where is the "truth" in advertising? I approached the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the United States, and Industry Canada requesting that they investigate the advertising undertaken by pet food companies." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.)

"Daring to take on two popular corporations that target children with junk food advertising. That's how emotionally charged the issue has become in our national discourse. When I think about how food companies target children, I like to break it down into two categories: schools and everywhere else. Nutrition advocates are trying to rid school vending machines of soda and junk food, but companies are lobbying hard against those efforts. The battle for "everywhere else" creates its own set of challenges." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "The impressive five-hun-dred-page document—the collective effort of sixteen top-notch experts (including several from industry)—assessed the influence of food advertising directed at kids. Reviewing hundreds of studies, it found, rather unsurprisingly, that such marketing promotes preferences for high-calorie, low-nutrient foods and beverages, and encourages children to request and consume these products." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"These are forms of food advertising visible to anyone paying attention, but twenty-first century methods of stealth marketing are designed deliberately to slip under the radar of parental oversight. The next time you take a child to a cartoon movie, notice what the cartoon characters are eating and drinking. You can bet that the film studio has a deal with food company sponsors (hence: SpongeBob SquarePants on Kraft macaroni and other such products)." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"Indeed, as Ellen Wartella, a member of the IOM committee (and advisor to Kraft Foods to boot) acknowledged: "We can't anymore argue whether food advertising is related to children's diets. It is."7 Government Has It Covered It's no secret that the federal government has essentially thrown up its hands and abdicated all responsibility when it comes to reining in the out-of-control marketing of junk food to kids. Currently, federal laws to regulate marketing to children range from scant to nil." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"Openly opposed the banning of junk food advertising to children during World Health Organization meetings. Suppressed information about the harm caused by dangerous drugs in order to prevent the press and the public from learning the truth about them. Attempted to silence its own drug safety scientists to prevent them from going public with the truth about dangerous drugs. Censored scientific information about the benefits of natural foods like cherries by threatening cherry growers with legal action if they did not remove scientific information about cherries from their websites." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Critics contend that heavy lobbying by the sugar and food industries caused some key policy recommendations to be left out: You will not find suggestions 1) to limit free sugars to 10 percent or less of your caloric intake, 2) to restrict or ban junk food advertising to children, 3) to reduce consumption of soft drinks, or 4) to support policies that promote production and marketing of fruits, vegetables, and legumes." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) "Interestingly, the announcement of this planned lawsuit, which was in settlement discussions as this book was going to press, came six weeks after the Institute of Medicine's landmark report, which found that food advertising aimed at kids gets them to prefer—and request—foods high in calories and low in nutrients. In publicizing the lawsuit, CSPI's press release quoted Sherri Carlson, a mother of three, who lamented Nickelodeon's "enticing junk food ads. Adding insult to injury, we enter the grocery store and see our beloved Nick characters plastered on all those junky snacks and cereals." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"Look at the deluge of junk food advertising aimed at kids that we see today. CARU has given the green light to all of it!9 Food law expert Ellen Fried, a researcher with the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University, agrees that CARU is largely ineffective, even when the agency tries to reprimand advertisers. "I've read enough case reports to see the same waltz repeatedly danced between CARU and food companies. All too often, CARU's admonishments have little effect on either the company's behavior or the harmful effects of advertising to children," she said. " - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"The Key Question Both the food industry and its critics can agree that massive money is spent on food advertising and that food slogans, jingles, and advertisements have become fixtures in American culture. But here the agreement stops. Industry claims that advertising is only effective at moving people toward brands of products they will use anyway: a child might be tugged by General Mills to eat Count Chocula or by Kellogg to want Disney Buzz Blasts, by Pepsi to want Gatorade or by Coke to want Powerade." - Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.) "As long as children are exposed to food advertising, they deserve education that allows them to place what they hear in the context of good health. Conclusion Advertising aimed at children is powerful in presentation, overwhelming in amount, and pernicious in outcome. Many children do not recognize the purpose of advertising and cannot separate advertising from programming.90 The Flintstones, for example, are TV and movie characters, but are also toys, vitamins, and cereals." - Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.) "Subsidies paid to the agriculture industry are not considered in the context of public health. food advertising aimed at children is essentially unregulated, again without regard to the overall nutrition picture. And if anyone is alert to all the pieces, it is the food industry. This said, there is a risk that centralizing nutrition programs will increase opportunities for commercial interests to exploit the system, as there would be fewer people to target with lobbying and fewer elected leaders to court." - Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.) "Regulating food advertising may be possible in some countries, as may keeping poor foods from schools, helping children walk or bike to school, instituting food labeling regulations, and so on. Regional or even worldwide efforts might be especially powerful. Success Stories A number of countries in the world are alert to the obesity crisis and are beginning to take action.38 Creative approaches are being tried, some with good results, but most programs are in the early stages of being evaluated. There is much countries can learn from one another." - Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.)

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