Marketing Food and Beverages to Youth Through Sports

Availability and marketing of food and beverages to children through sports settings: a systematic review.

OBJECTIVE The current systematic review aimed to identify and critically appraise research on food environments in sports settings, including research into the types of food and beverages available, the extent and impact of food and beverage sponsorship and marketing, and views about food environments among key stakeholders. DESIGN A systematic review. Fourteen English-language studies (two w...

Food and Beverage Marketing to Youth.

After nearly a decade of concern over the role of food and beverage marketing to youth in the childhood obesity epidemic, American children and adolescents - especially those from communities of color - are still immersed in advertising and marketing environments that primarily promote unhealthy foods and beverages. Despite some positive steps, the evidence shows that the food and beverage indu...

Food marketing to youth: current threats and opportunities.

ly all of it promotes unhealthy foods. We expect children to be exposed to tV commercials, company websites, and radio ads; however, food marketing is also part of the childhood landscape on billboards, school scoreboards, vending machines, packaging and promotions on store shelves, and restaurant signage.1–5 today, food companies also visit youth on their cell phones, through “word of mouth” o...

Food Marketing Expenditures Aimed at Youth

& 2013 Ame Abstract: In response to concerns about childhood obesity, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released two reports documenting food and beverage marketing expenditures to children and adolescents. The recently released 2012 report found an inflation-adjusted 19.5% reduction in marketing expenditures targeted to youth from $2.1 billion in 2006 to $1.8 billion in 2009. The current arti...

Sports Management and Marketing