It takes a lot to faze an emergency medicine doctor ... tent having turned a blue-gray color that reminded him of the cartoon characters. Turns out, Burkholder says, they’d gotten sick by ...

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 ...

The results appear in the March issue of the journal Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine ... The presence of a cartoon character was enough to override the children's misgivings.

More information: A character a day keeps the fruit on display: the influence of cartoon characters on preschoolers' preference for healthy food Int. J. Markets and Business Systems, Vol. 1, No. 3 ...

Children significantly prefer the taste of junk foods branded with licensed cartoon characters on the packaging, compared with the same foods without characters, finds a new study from the Rudd Center ...