Food Promotion and Children's Health: Considering Best Practices for Teaching and Evaluating Media Literacy on Food Marketing

• Main Authors: Charlene Elliott (Author), Emily Truman (Author), Michelle R. Nelson (Author), Cyndy Scheibe (Author), Liselot Hudders (Author), Steffi De Jans (Author), Kara Brisson-Boivin (Author), Samantha McAleese (Author), Matthew Johnson (Author), Lauren Walker (Author), Kirsten Ellison (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Food marketing to children is ubiquitous and persuasive. It primarily promotes foods of poor nutritional quality, influences children's food preferences and habits, and is a factor in childhood obesity. Given that food marketing relentlessly targets children in traditional/digital media and the...