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Teaching Standards

Data

Activity Suggestion

Handouts

Sample Ads

In The News

Lesson Plans

Research

Related Web Sites

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 Deconstructing Ads For 
Snack and Junk Food 
 Which Target Young Children 


written and produced by Frank Baker, Copyright 2004


Research:

Too Much TV Linked To Future Fast-food Intake
"Where's The Fruit?" Study of fruit content in foods and beverages highly advertised to kids
Broadcasting bad health (WHO)

A National Survey of the Types and Extent of the Marketing of Foods
of Minimal Nutritional Value in Schools (September 2006)
TV confuses children about which foods are healthy, new study finds 
Advertising, marketing & media fact sheet (2004)
Advertising Foods to Children (2004)
The Effects of Food Advertising Policy on Televised
Nutrient Content Claims and Health Claims

The Role of Media in Childhood Obesity
FTC: Advertising Nutrition & Health:
Evidence from Food Advertising 1977 - 1997
(2002)
A Media Literacy Nutrition Education Curriculum for Head Start
Companies from General Mills to Chevron blur the line between 
advertisement and entertainment,focusing their sites on children
(1999)  

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