Children’s self-regulation of eating provides no defense against television and online food marketing

Journal Appetite

Excerpt: “Exposure to unhealthy food marketing stimulates children’s food consumption. A child’s responsiveness is influenced by individual factors, resulting in an increased vulnerability to advertising effects among some children. Whether these differential responses may be altered by different parental feeding behaviours is unclear. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between parental feeding practices and children’s food intake responses to food advertising exposure.” Read article here
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