Government regulation of the tobacco industry, including advertising restrictions and warning labels, has significantly reduced smoking rates. Childhood obesity is a growing epidemic, linked to the aggressive marketing of unhealthy foods to children.

Exposure to junk food advertisements (relative to non-food) results in children and adolescents consuming significantly more calories during the day, regardless of the type of media advertising, according to a randomised crossover trial being presented at ...

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 advertising can directly affect the types of foods that ...