Nutrition professor Marion Nestle says cartoons can spotlight food politics She shares more than 250 of her favorite cartoons in her new book Her goal%3A Have people get active in food politics ...

Mothers forced to buy unhealthy foods for their nagging children. Aug. 16, 2011— -- It's a tried-and-true marketing method: Slap a famous cartoon on food boxes and odds are children will be ...

President Donald Trump’s unusual fast-food buffet for the national college football champions, the Clemson Tigers, got mixed reviews. Some called it “distasteful and embarassing,” while ...

First, the cartoons: this week's question from Eating ... contains excellent reviews of studies of the influence of the food marketing environment on child and adult health. Sara Bleich et al ...

A new study finds that when kids see familiar and favorite characters from cartoons or movies on food packaging, they tend to like that food more. That may not seem like such a revelation ...

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If a picture is worth a thousand words, a political cartoon has got to be worth about double that. That’s about … the average length of one of my pieces. Like a good cartoon, Nestle’s main ...

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Well duh. A study by Matthew Lapierre at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of Communication indicates that kids say food tastes better when a beloved cartoon character endorses it.

CU-Boulder study finds plump cartoon characters drive kids to junk food Children tend to reach for low-nutrition, high-calorie food — and more of it — after seeing cartoon characters that seem ...