Background Diet-related environmental and policy interventions are being advocated at a
population level because individual change is more likely to be facilitated and sustained if …

Reducing food marketing to children has been proposed as one means for addressing the
global crisis of childhood obesity, but significant social, legal, financial, and public …

Objective: Health advocates have focused on the prevalence of advertising for calorie-dense
low-nutrient foods as a significant contributor to the obesity epidemic. This research tests the …

This text is well-grounded in scholarship, synthesizes a number of streams of thought, and
then proposes thought-provoking applications for an existing approach to social and …

Overweight in childhood sets the stage for a lifelong struggle with weight and eating and
raises the risk of health problems, such as obesity, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, sleep …

Obesity is a major public health concern in the United States. Over the last several decades,
the prevalence of obesity among both adults and children has grown at an alarming rate and …

Objectives. We tested the associations of content types of children's television viewing with
subsequent body mass index (BMI) to assess the plausibility of different causal pathways …

Marketing practices that promote calorie‐dense, nutrient‐poor foods directly to children and
adolescents present significant public health risk. Worldwide, calls for government action …

The ubiquitous marketing of energy‐dense, nutrient‐poor food and beverages is a key
modifiable influence on childhood dietary patterns and obesity. Much of the research on …

This Policy Statement was retired March 2018. Obesity has become a worldwide public
health problem. Considerable research has shown that the media contribute to the …