Resource about Food Marketing to Children: Digital Module

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To help increase awareness of unhealthy food and beverage marketing and inspire collective action to make positive changes in communities, schools and other places that children gather, the UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity created a set of presentations as a resource for advocates to spread the word about unhealthy food and beverage marketing in their communities. 

The presentations are suited for a wide-range of audiences including health department outreach events, parent gatherings, school PTO meetings or school wellness committee, faith and youth groups, and food policy councils.

Among these resources is a downloadable presentation on “Food Marketing to Youth: What’s the Harm?”, which explains the importance of eating healthy foods, the truth about how millions of dollars is spent in unhealthy food marketing towards kids through advergames, smartphone apps, websites, social media sites and video games.

Latino kids often see more ads on TV than their white peers about junk foods and sugary sweetened beverages, having resources for parents and health leaders in communities may help build a culture of health around more healthy food marketing for kids.

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