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Marketing foods and drinks to kids in schools goes on and on
by Marion Nestle | Food Politics
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

 A new report from the National Education Policy Center at University of Colorado, Boulder, shows that food companies are not making enough progress in reducing marketing to children. However, the report does not offer recommendations for change. To learn more about how to take action, Nestle recommends visiting our resources section or cspinet.org. Foodmarketing.org, the website of the Food Marketing Workgroup, also contains action opportunites.

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Did the food industry buy your kid?
by Nan Feyler | Philly.com
Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Food and beverage companies spend billions each year to target kids with mostly unhealthy products. Referencing a BMSG report on target marketing, the chief of staff of the Philadelphia Department of Public Health shows how pervasive the issue is, especially in communities of color, which are disproportionately targeted with ads for junk food.

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In spite of scrutiny by advocates, sales of Nestle Girl Scout Crunch bars on the rise
by Staff | ConfectionaryNews.com
Thursday, March 14, 2013

The bars have surpassed sales estimates by 150 percent. BMSG and the Center for Science in the Public Interest have urged Nestle to stop marketing unhealthy foods featuring the Girl Scout's name and logo, saying that doing so violates the company's pledge to avoid marketing to children.

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Ad from BMSG and CSPI targets Nickelodeon over kids' marketing
by Staff | Food Product Design
Thursday, March 14, 2013

The public health groups, along with Center for Digital Democracy, Children Now, Prevention Institute, and Voices for America's Children, have taken out a full-page "wanted" ad in The Hollywood Reporter, calling on Nickelodeon to stop marketing junk food to kids. A new report shows that 70 percent of food ads on Nickelodeon are for unhealthy products.

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Sugar industry's secret documents echo tobacco tactics
by Kelly Crowe | CBC News
Friday, March 8, 2013

The documents show how the sugary industry manipulated science and the media in an effort to influence public opinion and silence critics. The tactics, says BMSG's Andrew Cheyne in a video accompanying this article, mirror those of other industries that "put profits before health."

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