The Age (Victoria, Australia) Junk food companies have been accused of targeting children on their way to school as pressure mounts on the Victorian government to ban ads on state-owned property. More than a quarter of the ads children pass on the train as they head to school are for unhealthy foods including chips, doughnuts […]
CTVnews.ca Of the 12 jurisdictions covered by an analysis of 400,000 packaged food and drink products, Canada led the pack when it came to sodium content. Canadian packaged foods averaged 291 milligrams of sodium per 100 grams of food or beverage, ahead of the U.S. at 279 milligrams per 100 grams. Read article here. You […]
GD.com UK nutritionist Hannah Skeggs explores the impacts of advertising high fat, salt and sugar (HFSS) products to children. Despite increasing airtime given to health campaigns, advertisements for less healthy products still dominate airtime. A recent survey of 7-11 year olds by Cancer Research & University of Liverpool found that each hour children spent watching […]
The Independent UK School food policy has failed to sustain quality nutrition – particularly in secondary schools. Researchers from the Jamie Oliver Foundation were alarmed to find many schools are still serving high-fat and sugary foods at break and lunch – including pasties, pizza, doughnuts, muffins and cookies, often in large portion sizes. Read article […]
Berkeley Media Studies Group Junk food and soda companies often aggressively market their least healthy items to low-income communities and communities of color, especially youth — the very groups that have been the hardest hit by the current epidemic of nutrition-related disease. Read blog post here.
HuffPost Canada An interview with Kate Comeau, a dietitian and spokesperson for Dietitians of Canada, who debunks the myths in Andrew Scheer’s recent comments on the Canada Food Guide. Read OpEd here…
CBC News An article that discusses the effect industry lobbying has had on marketing to kid restrictions and front of package labelling, two pillars of the Liberal Government’s healthy eating strategy. Read here…
The Washington Post Latin American countries have introduced a number of measures to tackle increased consumption of sugary beverages and ultra-processed foods in an effort to escape the obesity epidemic that has overtaken the United States. “One country and one strategy at a time, the region has pushed back against sugary beverages and ultra-processed foods […]
The Hill Times Consumer advocates are pushing for the US Federal Trade Commission to come down hard on YouTube’s handling of children’s privacy. The Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) and the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC) are calling for YouTube to separate children’s videos from the rest of the platform in order to crack […]
BBC News Cancer Research UK says bowel, kidney, ovarian and liver cancers are more likely to have been caused by being overweight than by smoking tobacco and that obese people outnumber smokers two to one in the UK. Their new billboard campaign highlighting the obesity-cancer risk has landed them in hot water for fat-shaming. Read […]
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