06 Apr Brands off our kids!
The Australian Obesity Policy Coalition has launched Brands Off Our Kids! - four actions to protect children from the processed food industry’s unhealthy food marketing. Read more here ...
The Australian Obesity Policy Coalition has launched Brands Off Our Kids! - four actions to protect children from the processed food industry’s unhealthy food marketing. Read more here ...
Read the report on the regulation of alcohol marketing that is needed to meet health, wellbeing and equity goals. Read report ...
The WHO–UNICEF–Lancet Commission identified an important threat to children's health and futures by stating that children across the globe are exposed to exploitative advertising and marketing by the private sector. Fast food and sugar-sweetened beverages, alcohol, tobacco, e-cigarettes, breastmilk substitutes, and gambling, were positioned as...
Western Australia’s leading non-government health agencies have joined forces to call on the State Government to immediately end junk food advertising on government property such as public transport, outdoor billboards and sporting venues. Read article ...
This is a thorough and carefully done analysis of the ways in which Big Food companies took advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic as a marketing opportunity. The report gives more than 40 specific examples of corporate: Nutri-washing: Coupling “solidarity actions” with aggressive marketing of junk food...
A major cause of New Zealand’s very high rates of obesity has been mapped in a world-first study from the University of Auckland. A comprehensive study of food composition, labelling, marketing, and prices as well as food in schools and retail outlets found that food environments...
This UK report published by the Cancer Research UK, January 2018, examines the association between television marketing and diet and recommends urgent action on junk food television marketing. The report is called “10 Years On: New evidence on TV marketing and junk food eating amongst 11-19...
Published in the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2017 Authors: L.N Signal, J. Stanley, M. Smith, M. B. Barr, T. J. Chambers, J. Zhou,A. Duane, C. Gurrin, A. F. Smeaton, C. McKerchar,A. L. Pearson, J. Hoek, G. L. S. Jenkin and C. Ni Mhurchu Abstract Background Over the past three decades the global prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity has increased by 47%. Marketing of energy-dense nutrient-poor...