In this research, the authors examine the effects on preschool-aged childhood obesity rates associated with the direct … higher levels of fast food restaurant saturation are associated with increased levels of childhood obesity in both urban and … poor areas, with the largest negative effect of fast food availability on obesity occurring in more economically …

markets. This paper analysis the effect of marketing strategies of such companies on young children. It also suggests some … methods to tackle the problem of junk-food adddiction and obesity. …

social marketing campaign named Change4Life, and examines how ideas about the causes of and solutions to the obesity epidemic …

number of youth exposed to fast-food advertising on television but would still result in non-trivial reductions in obesity. …We examine the effects of fast-food restaurant advertising on television on the body composition of adolescents as … obesity based on body-mass index (BMI). We merge measures of body composition from bioelectrical-impedance analysis (BIA) and …

minority children. Although US government reports clearly cite the disproportionate rates of obesity among ethnic minority … youth, limited attention is paid to understanding whether the factors that contribute to obesity among children in general … increasingly important issue of the role of targeted marketing strategies by the food and beverage industries in the obesity …

This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised … advertising is rampant and products are generally ineffective with potentially serious side effects. We control for the targeting … exposure to deceptive advertising is associated with a lower probability that women, and a higher probability that men, consume …

(CSDs). They are: (1) a soda tax (1 cent per ounce), (2) a ban on television advertising, (3) limiting calories to 100 per …, advertising ban, limiting calories, and restricting container sizes, respectively. …