The UK ban on adverts for 'unhealthy' food – including sweets, chocolate and soft drinks – is designed to tackle childhood obesity. Junk food adverts disappear from TV and online today, Monday 5 ...

Kids are like little sponges—soaking up everything they see, hear, and scroll through. And when it comes to junk food ads? Oh boy, they absorb that too—and fast. A new study just confirmed what most ...

The Australian government has been investigating whether we should ban unhealthy food advertising online, and how it could work. In the United Kingdom, a ban on unhealthy food and drink advertising ...

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, ...

When McDonald’s launched a brief food safety ad at the end of 2024, it raised eyebrows in an industry that typically avoids such topics — especially after an E. coli outbreak tied to Quarter Pounders ...

Christine Parker receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. Tanita Northcott does not work for, consult, ...

Food ads for kids, and on-screen exposure to tobacco for adults, are still a thing. Two studies suggest that the little ones are bombarded with junk food commercials, and adults are stumbling over ...

Ad industry and business organizations are urging New York lawmakers to reject a bill that would restrict companies' ability to advertise food and beverages. The proposed law (S 397) contains “vague ...