In exclusive interviews with India Today, two senior paediatricians warned that the relentless marketing of ultra-processed ...

A study looked at a year of TV ads on a major, free channel in Australia. A new study in Australia looked at how much junk food advertising kids were exposed to and the numbers were staggering. Food ...

All American kids see junk food ads, but preschoolers (2 to 5 years old), children (6 to 11 years) and teens (12 to 17 years) of color see more ads per week on average than their white peers, ...

Children’s TV programming and junk food have been tied since the beginnings of the medium, as in the above video of an early Mickey Mouse Club, sponsored by “your friendly neighbor who bottles ...

Despite pledges from food makers, young children are seeing more advertisements for junk food on TV than they did in past years. A team at Yale's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity found from ...

Childhood obesity has now surpassed underweight as the leading form of malnutrition, UNICEF reports. Driven by ...

Children are especially vulnerable to the influence of advertising, which is now more sophisticated and personalised than ever.

NEW YORK -- There won't be any more candy, sugary cereal or fast food on TV with the morning cartoons. The Walt Disney Co. on Tuesday became the first major media company to ban ads for junk food on ...

Kids who live in states with strict laws regulating the sale of junk food and sugary drinks in school gain less weight than their peers in states with weak or no such laws, according to a new study ...

CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Two activist groups have taken a bead on Tony the Tiger, threatening to sue Kellogg Co. for hawking junk food to kids and Viacom Inc. for providing the means to do so. On ...