Health coalition asks Nickelodeon to stop marketing sugary and fatty snacks to children
Elise Viebeck of The Hill‘s Healthwatch blog quotes the letter: “Research shows that food marketing is an important factor contributing to children’s poor diets and obesity. The majority of foods marketed to children remain of poor nutritional quality. The [federal Institute of Medicine] concluded that marketing puts children’s health at risk.” The letter went on to shake its finger at Nickelodeon for being behind Disney and other prominent child marketers on this front. (Read more)
This comes on the same day that the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the University of Kansas Medical Center release study results that found obese children may be more susceptible to food advertising than
healthy-weight children, suggesting at least one reason the
nation’s childhood obesity rate could continue to climb as feared. (Read more)