title: Food and Beverage Marketing to Youth.
abstract: 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 industry self-regulation alone is not likely to significantly reduce marketing of unhealthy foods and beverages to youth. A variety of research is needed to monitor industry marketing of unhealthy products to young people, and identify the most promising approaches to improve children's food marketing environments. The continued presence of unhealthy marketing toward children despite years of industry self-regulation suggests it is time for stronger action by policymakers to protect young people from harmful marketing practices.
authors.affiliation: Berkeley Media Studies Group, a project of the Public Health Institute, 2130 Center St. #302, Berkeley, CA, 94704, USA. andrewcheyne@gmail.com.|California Association of Food Banks, 1624 Franklin St #722, Oakland, CA, 94612, USA. andrewcheyne@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cheyne
authors.affiliation: Berkeley Media Studies Group, a project of the Public Health Institute, 2130 Center St. #302, Berkeley, CA, 94704, USA. mejia@bmsg.org.
authors.forename: Pamela
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mejia
authors.affiliation: Berkeley Media Studies Group, a project of the Public Health Institute, 2130 Center St. #302, Berkeley, CA, 94704, USA. nixon@bmsg.org.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Nixon
authors.affiliation: Berkeley Media Studies Group, a project of the Public Health Institute, 2130 Center St. #302, Berkeley, CA, 94704, USA. dorfman@bmsg.org.
authors.forename: Lori
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dorfman
keywords: Adolescents; Children; Digital; Food and beverage marketing; Food environments; Industry self-regulation; Marketing; Policy; Schools