Thursday, December 08, 2005

Food Marketing to Children and Youth: Threat or Opportunity?

"The report finds that current food and beverage marketing practices puts children's long-term health at risk. If America's children and youth are to develop eating habits that help them avoid early onset of diet-related chronic diseases, they have to reduce their intake of high-calorie, low-nutrient snacks, fast foods, and sweetened drinks, which make up a high proportion of the products marketed to them." Source: Institute of Medicine (National Academies)

Link to Online Report

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