Sentences with phrase «marketing to children»

And the government could put restrictions on food marketing to children to help create a food environment that promotes more healthful eating.

Those are the places I would want to focus on, along with tighter rules on marketing to children and things like that.

We do not specifically market to children under 13.

If your child is susceptible to violent messages, then you might see marketing of violent media and toys (linked to violent behavior) as the worst potential effect of marketing to children.

The most common complaints about marketing to children center on specific products such as violent media, alcohol, tobacco, and, most recently, junk food.

«Should a game marketed to children even be allowed to feature these systems,» for example.

«They're being marketed to children with autism and ADHD, special needs kids,» she says.

But either way, does this development mark a real shift in how fast food chains will market to children going forward?

It can feel like an uphill battle trying to combat the vast power of the food industry, which spends $ 10 billion per year marketing to children.

In fact, negative role models and a destructive value system is heavily marketed to our children.

Kids are constantly using these platforms and publishers have to think about how to market to children there, as well as how to lure readers off their devices.

This gives adults access to a game style that was previously marketed to children.

All we seem to hear from the major food corporations about marketing to children are self - serving promises and announcements of future changes.

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As part of local school wellness policies, the proposed guidelines would ensure that foods and beverages marketed to children in schools are consistent with the recently - released Smart Snacks in School standards.

They look cute, but watch out Watch out for kiddie - sized snak paks and other adorable food products marketed to children.

For close to a decade the industry has not marketed to children under 12, has reformulated products to offer low and no - sugar varieties and has voluntarily displayed kilojoule information on the front of labels.

-LSB-...] A soccer mom spoke out against a soda company marketing to children at the practice fields.

In addition, it increased the number of students who could get school meals at little or no cost, and ensured that any food or beverage marketed to children at school meets specific nutrition standards.

A reporter recently asked me what I see as the most destructive aspect or effect of marketing to children as practiced in the United States today.

Much of the debate centers on how McDonald's and other fast - food companies market to children and other young consumers.

I've reported in the past on efforts by various cities to impose a so - called «Happy Meal Toy Ban,» i.e., a prohibition on the inclusion of toys in less healthy fast food meals marketed to children.

I was hoping for a chance to speak face - to - face with CEO Don Thompson about the company's aggressive marketing to children but, as... [Continue reading]

Yet, despite consistent compliance, self - regulation has been ineffective in shifting the landscape of food marketing to children away from an overwhelming emphasis on obesogenic products.»

While the vast majority of parents are blind to the issue, one of the most serious problems associated with the transformation of the nation's education system is the creation of massive databases that track a broad array of data about children and how a variety of public and private entities mine that data for various uses including marketing to children and parents.

The Ram brand does not intentionally market to children under 16 years old.

Yet we were all stunned when the retailer Claire's pulled 17 products from their shelves after asbestos was found in cosmetics marketed to children, including glitter and eye shadow,» said Dingell in the release.

The illustration below from the Cancer Council research shows the contents of products generally marketed to children by one of the advertisers examined — Kellogg's.

Food movement leaders tend to stick to their specific issues, whether it's advocating for healthy food, fighting for workers» rights or curbing marketing to children.

In the massive budget bill just passed, Congress stuck in language to require the Federal Trade Commission to conduct a cost / benefit analysis before finalizing a report that would provide the food industry with science - based nutrition guidelines for marketing to children.

The effort is led by the Campaign for a Commercial - Free Childhood (CCFC), an advocacy organization working to combat exploitative marketing to children.

For example, Sweden, Norway and Finland ban marketing to children under 12,...

Born out of parents» frustration with gender - based marketing to children, Let Toys Be Toys asks manufacturers and publishers to take a more inclusive approach to play.

Meanwhile, a semiautonomous «youth culture» — backed up, I would add, by massive marketing to children — endlessly demands a sexualized precocity that mimics adulthood without meeting genuine developmental needs.

With the zeal of a reformer and the heart of a dreamer, she calls for turning off the television at home, providing better funding for public schools and public media, and enacting laws that forbid marketing to children altogether.

This is much like the tobacco companies, who market to children with religious symbols like Joe the Camel in order to get children addicted and to become customers for life.

The blueberry and cherry yogurts were a bit thin at first — sort of like those slurpable tube yogurts marketed to children — but when chilled for a few hours, they will firm up.

As well as this, and pursuant to the Beverages Council's Energy Drink Industry Commitment document, energy drinks manufacturers do not directly market to children and do not sell to any schools.

Food and drink companies need to turn their words on marketing to children into action, says European consumer rights group BEUC, as it calls «game over» on marketing unhealthy food to kids.

The majority of foods advertised (n 1807) were unhealthy; 68 · 5 % of food advertisements included at least one food not permitted to be marketed to children according to the WHO nutrient profiling model.

The second set of voluntary regulations to be introduced was the Australian Quick Service Restaurant Industry's (QSRI) Initiative for Responsible Advertising and Marketing to Children [6].

Indeed, in other contexts, the FTC is working to curb direct marketing to children even though — as with the Happy Meal — it's usually the parent making the -LSB-...]

Negative health effects of Bamba, Bisli, Crembos and other snacks marketed to children are only incremental.

Someone sent me a link to the clip below on junk food industry marketing to children, produced by the Rudd Centre for Food Policy and Obesity (watch it below).

Looking back at 2013, while the food movement made progress in certain areas (such as school food and GMO labeling), when it comes to exploitative food marketing to children meaningful change remains elusive.

Not only is this a particularly North American take on things --- and the result of intense marketing to children and adults alike --- I found that given the opportunity to learn about food (where it comes from, how its grown, transported and packaged) and to get involved in cooking, growing and sharing it, children make great choices about what they eat.