Food marketing brings together the producer and consumer. It is responsible for the chain of activities that brings food from the “farm gate to the plate.” While farmer markets are one way that this can occur, more highly processed foods, such as a breakfast cereals or frozen dinners go...

Whereas everyone recognizes that increasing obesity rates worldwide are driven by a complex set of interrelated factors, the marketing actions of the food industry are often singled out as one of the main culprits. But how exactly is food marketing making us fat? To answer this question, we...