Purpose – A lot of factors lead to the development of overweight and obesity in children. This article highlights that in this context, preventing childhood obesity must be at the core of the various agencies’ priorities such as food industry, stores, parents, schools, authorities as well as...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that, as a factor in the socialization of children, school can play a major mediating role in the reduction of the prevalence of childhood obesity through school programs aimed at promoting healthy and well‐balanced food intake....

Purpose – This paper aims to describe an ethnographic research study conducted within French families in order to examine the transfer of food learning between parents and children. Design/methodology/approach – An ethnographic study in the respondents' home was conducted. Semi‐directive...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to better understand the world of blogs and youngsters by describing and trying to understand the young blogger. It is a first step towards questioning not only the importance of blogs for youngsters, but also the fact that blogs might constitute a virtual...