Targeted Marketing of Junk Food to Ethnic Minority Youth : Fighting Back with Legal Advocacy and Community Engagement
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Existing Data on the Targeted Marketing of Junk Food to Ethnic Minority Youth Existing data regarding the targeted marketing of junk food to minority youth is scarce. Sonya Grier, one of the few academics who have written about the issue, recently observed that “with all this concern about food marketing to children, there should be a heavy emphasis on looking more carefully at food marketing to ethnic minority youth and you don’t see that.”5
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تاریخ انتشار 2012