“Current food and beverage marketing practices put children’s long-term health at risk.” National Academies’ Institute of Medicine, 2006
The overwhelming majority of foods marketed to children are of poor nutritional quality.
Three-quarters (73%) of the foods advertised on television shows intended for children are for convenience/fast foods and sweets.
On Nickelodeon, the most popular children’s television station, ads for foods of poor nutritional quality decreased only modestly from before self-regulation went into effect (2005) to after (2012), from about 90% to 70% of food ads.
Only one-quarter of chain restaurants that market to children have food marketing policies and none of those address toys. Yet, 97% of children’s meals at the top U.S. restaurant chains are of poor
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