Study finds junk-food marketing changes the tastes of kids as young as age 4 ... a child writhe in agony over a cardboard box with a cartoon character on it. Today, researchers from Yale ...

And when given a choice, the vast majority of kids pick the food from the cartoon-adorned package as a snack, the study found. The use of TV and movie characters on food packaging is "designed to ...

Generations of kids ... cartoon characters. "The fact that just the exposure to apparently overweight characters leads kids to choose and eat quite a bit more non-nutritious food is really ...

“For too long, restaurants in America have served menus full of ... gimmicks (toys and cartoon-branded food items). At the core of its approach is providing kids with "real options," Sara ...

Be it SpongeBob SquarePants or Tony the Tiger, food companies have long used cartoon characters to market their products to children. But that tactic can also sway younger kids to eat fresh ...

Is your kid on the Dora the Explorer diet? Children say food tastes better when a familiar cartoon character — like Dora or Scooby Doo — appears on its packaging, a new study finds.

Children tend to prefer the taste of cereal when the packaging features popular cartoon characters ... research from Yale’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, which also found that ...

More than half of supermarket products marketed at kids are unhealthy ... The finding has lead to calls for cartoon characters to be removed from 'junk food' packaging. The OPC surveyed 186 ...