News tagged with foods advertised
Australia proposes tough cigarette packaging rules
(AP) -- Tobacco companies in Australia will be forced to strip all logos from their cigarette packages and replace them with graphic images such as cancer-riddled mouths and sickly children under legislation unveiled Thursday ...
Apr 07, 2011 |
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Fast food and sweets advertised when children watch television
Children in Sweden are exposed to a huge number of TV advertisements. Food adverts – primarily for fast food and sweets – dominate the advertisements shown during children's viewing times. Research from the University ...
Dec 14, 2010 |
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Scientists call for tighter regulations on food adverts during children's TV viewing
Psychologists at the University of Liverpool have called for tighter advertising regulations after a study revealed unhealthy foods are more likely to be advertised during children's peak viewing times than at any other point ...
Oct 28, 2010 |
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Self-regulation is not enough in children's TV advertising: study
Children still see the same amount of television advertising for unhealthy foods as they did before industry self-regulation was introduced last year, according to new University of Sydney research published ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 30, 2010 |
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Most US kids see fewer food ads on television: study
Most US kids saw fewer TV food ads between 2003 and 2007, but black kids were bombarded with more calorie-rich advertising than whites, a study showed Monday.
Sep 06, 2010 |
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Point-of-sale advertising major cause of teen smoking, study shows
Point-of-sale tobacco advertising works impressively well on teens — so well that federal regulators should consider barring such marketing efforts from convenience stores, gas stations and small groceries, a Stanford University ...
Jul 18, 2010 |
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Progress made in addressing food marketing to children, but challenges remain
The last six years have seen significant progress in efforts to curb the marketing of unhealthy food to children, with an increasing number of governments taking on the issue, but considerable challenges remain, a leading ...
Jul 13, 2010 |
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Study: Kids now see fewer television ads for sweets and beverages, but more for fast food
Children saw fewer television advertisements for certain foods, including those for sweets and beverages, in 2007 compared with 2003, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the September print issue ...
Jul 05, 2010 |
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Linguistics professor examines manufacturers' prescription drug websites
Dartmouth Linguistics Professor Lewis Glinert and Jon Schommer, the associate head of the Department of Pharmaceutical Care and Health Systems at the University of Minnesota, have examined the corporate websites dedicated ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jun 30, 2010 |
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Changing young people's eating habits
A thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, reveals how school initiatives are succeeding in getting the message across to young people, but also points out that food advertisements are using health arguments to market ...
Jun 09, 2010 |
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Online games new marketing tool for unhealthy foods
UC Davis public health researchers have found that children, who are already saturated with television messages about unhealthy food choices, are the targets of a new medium used to sell high-fat, high-sugar foods: advergames.
Jun 03, 2010 |
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TV food advertisements promote imbalanced diets
Making food choices based on television advertising results in a very imbalanced diet according to a new study comparing the nutritional content of food choices influenced by television to nutritional guidelines published ...
Jun 01, 2010 |
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FDA urges docs to report misleading drug ads
(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it will begin asking doctors to keep an eye out for misleading drug advertisements as part of the agency's latest effort to police the pharmaceutical industry's multibillion-dollar ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
May 11, 2010 |
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Do TV ads affect children's diet, obesity?
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago Institute for Health Research and Policy have received a $2.2 million federal grant to determine whether or not TV food advertising affects children's diet, physical activity ...
Feb 22, 2010 |
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New study examines the impact on children of food product placements in the movies
New research from the Hood Center for Children and Families at Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) for the first time sheds light on the significant potential negative impact that food product placements in the movies could be ...
Feb 09, 2010 |
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