We examine the effects of fast-food restaurant advertising on television on the body composition of adolescents as measured by percentage body fat (PBF) and to assess the sensitivity of these effects to using conventional measures of youth obesity based on body-mass index (BMI). We merge...

"This inside look at the production of 20th century television commercials begins with a review of advertising's beginnings in the late 19th century and describes its development through the 1960s and early 1970s. The author recounts his experiences on commercial productions in theaters and...