"This study really nails it down. Now we have evidence for asking--no, requiring--food marketers to stop using cartoons to market junk foods to kids." The American Psychological Association and ...

Supermarkets, food manufacturers ... sugar-laden cereal with the tie-in to the new kiddie-cartoon craze is on the shelf at about your mid-thigh? It’s not a great height for an adult to notice ...

Of 19 cartoon characters identified in supermarkets by Which?, none of them marketed healthy food and the practice is fuelling the childhood obesity crisis, the report said. Kraft's Moo ...

June 21, 2010— -- For generations now, the grocery store tantrum has ... to children at least, food that's marketed with cartoons tastes better. Forty children from the New Haven, Conn., ...

More than half of supermarket products marketed at kids ... The OPC surveyed 186 packaged foods with cartoons or character promotions designed to attract children. It found 52 per cent were ...

If you've got young kids, here's the sort of research you do every time you go to the grocery store ... whether the appearance of a cartoon character on food packaging affects how kids perceive ...

Supermarkets must introduce fruit and ... appealing to youngsters as it announces plans to strip cartoon characters from unhealthy food packets by next spring. Lidl says it is tackling the issues ...

"This study really nails it down. Now we have evidence for asking--no, requiring--food marketers to stop using cartoons to market junk foods to kids." The American Psychological Association and ...