Food: Research

DECONSTRUCTING ADS FOR SNACK AND JUNK FOOD WHICH TARGET YOUNG CHILDREN

Written and produced by Frank Baker, Copyright 2004

• 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)