Cartoon characters should be banned from promoting junk food to improve childhood obesity rates, a leading group of MPs has suggested. The Health and Social Care Select Committee has called for a ...

But despite some industry efforts to put licensed characters on healthy foods, the vast majority of cartoon characters still appear on junk food products. The study notes that, for example ...

Yesterday the government proposed new guidelines that could make the concept of a cartoon ... foods from parents, but the FTC says kids are still being influenced by pervasive junk food advertising.

Childhood obesity: 22,000 Year Six pupils ‘severely obese’ Sugar tax: anti-obesity measure takes effect Children's online junk ... that food from a package decorated with a cartoon celebrity ...

The finding has lead to calls for cartoon characters to be removed from 'junk food' packaging. The OPC surveyed 186 packaged foods with cartoons or character promotions designed to attract children.

Children prefer the taste of foods branded with images of popular cartoon characters and choose ... taste perceptions and preferences for junk food. Given that 13 percent of marketing expenditures ...

Children can be convinced to eat their greens if they are advertised in the same way as junk food. Pupils who were shown posters of cartoon vegetable characters at the school canteen were up to ...

Cartoon characters should be banned from promoting junk food to improve childhood obesity rates, a leading group of MPs has suggested. The Health and Social Care Select Committee has called for a ...