Character apps for children's snacks: effects of character awareness on snack selection and consumption patterns

MM Putnam, CE Cotto, SL Calvert - Games for health journal, 2018 - liebertpub.com
Objective: Media characters are used to market snacks that are typically of poor nutritional
value, which has been linked to childhood obesity. This study examines whether children's …

The impact of price discounts and calorie messaging on beverage consumption: a multi-site field study

JJS Jue, MJ Press, D McDonald, KG Volpp, DA Asch… - Preventive …, 2012 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVES: To examine the efficacy of alternative approaches for shifting consumers
toward zero calorie beverages. We examined the effect of price discounts and novel …

Impact of tobacco-related health warning labels across socioeconomic, race and ethnic groups: results from a randomized web-based experiment

J Cantrell, DM Vallone, JF Thrasher, RH Nagler… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background The US Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 requires
updating of the existing text-only health warning labels on tobacco packaging with nine new …

Soft drink “pouring rights”: marketing empty calories to children

M Nestle - Public Health Reports, 2000 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Healthy People 2010 objectives call for meals and snacks served in schools to contribute to
overall diets that meet federal dietary guidelines. Sales in schools of foods and drinks high …

Nutrition claims on fruit drinks are inconsistent indicators of nutritional profile: a content analysis of fruit drinks purchased by households with young children

EW Duffy, MG Hall, FRD Carpentier, AA Musicus… - Journal of the Academy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Fruit drinks are the most commonly consumed sugar-sweetened beverage
among young children. Fruit drinks carry many nutrition-related claims on the front of …

Framing pictorial cigarette warning labels to motivate young smokers to quit

D Mays, MM Turner, X Zhao, WD Evans… - Nicotine & Tobacco …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Introduction: The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act requires
new pictorial warnings for US cigarette packs, but enactment has been delayed by tobacco …

[HTML][HTML] Perceived effectiveness of pictorial health warnings among Mexican youth and adults: a population-level intervention with potential to reduce tobacco-related …

D Hammond, J Thrasher, JL Reid, P Driezen… - Cancer Causes & …, 2012 - Springer
Purpose Pictorial health warnings on cigarette packages are a prominent and effective
means of communicating the risks of smoking; however, there is little research on effective …

[HTML][HTML] Food marketing to children in Canada: a settings-based scoping review on exposure, power and impact

P Rachel - Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods: The author searched databases for Canadian research on children's exposure to
food marketing, and the power and impact of food marketing to children (2-17 years) across …

The Happy Meal® effect: the impact of toy premiums on healthy eating among children in Ontario, Canada

EP Hobin, DG Hammond, S Daniel… - Canadian Journal of …, 2012 - Springer
Objectives “Toy premiums”, offered with McDonald's Happy Meals®, are a prominent form of
food marketing directed at children. Two California jurisdictions recently implemented …

Influence of sugar label formats on consumer understanding and amount of sugar in food choices: a systematic review and meta-analyses

T Scapin, AC Fernandes, CC Curioni… - Nutrition …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Context Reducing population intakes of sugar has become a focus of many national and
international public health policies. Packaged foods and beverages are key contributors to …