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Hawking Hydration Low: Gatorade Tells Kids To Avoid Water

January 10, 2014 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

Aug. 20, 2015 Update: Now Gatorade's G-Force is forcing their bottled neon into schools under the guise of 'hydration education?' Seriously? Paging media watchdogs! Crickets. Jan. 10, 2014 I’ve … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Nutrition & Wellness Tagged With: advergaming, athlete endorsements, big food, Big soda, Bolt, Cap the Tap, casual games, childhood obesity, Civil Eats, COPPA, CSPI, digital ads.org, drink up campaign, energy-drinks, food additives, food dyes, food marketing kids, Food Politics, Gatorade, health literacy, high school athletes, high sodium kids, kidney stones in kindergarten, Kids health, kids salt intake, kids-advertising-regulations, Let's Move, liquid candy, mobile-ads-kids, Nancy Huehnergarth, pediatricians recommend water, PepsiCo, preteens health, Salt assault, sports drinks, sports drinks overkill, sports drinks who needs 'em, sports nutrition, sports performance, student athletes, sugar salt intake kids, Talking to Kids About Junk Food, teens health sports drinks, War on Water, water best for hyrdration

Fast Forward Health Film Fest Oct 30, Celebrate Food Day 2012

October 24, 2012 by Amy Jussel 1 Comment

Oct 24, 2012 Food Day 2012! “I don’t need any finger-wagging salad munchers scolding me about junk food” ---no worries, not happening. But if you'd like to be more informed about the reason for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Counter-marketing, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: big food, Ca Right to Know, CCFC, CSPI, Fast Food Nation, Fast Forward Health, film fest, Food Day, Food Day 2012, food for thought, Food Inc., food marketing kids, Food Politics, GMO, health literacy, HFCS Food Supply, Kids health, kids-food-products, label lingo, label literacy, Meatrix, media-literacy, Michele Simon, Morgan Spurlock, public health policy, sustainable eating, The Real Bears

Food Inc. Review: Will Kids Be Hungry For Change?

July 22, 2009 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

July 22, 2009 Food, Inc. is making the rounds in art house theaters throughout the nation, and though I have yet to see it (going in Palo Alto soon!) we have Amy Vachon of Equally Shared Parenting … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Amy Vachon, Amy-Jussel, Appetite for Profit, Backwards Hamburger, big food, childhood obesity, CSPI, eat real, Eric Schlosser, fast food, Fast Food Nation, food additives, food for thought, Food Inc., food industry, food marketing, food marketing to kids, food policy, Food Politics, food supply, gross out game, HFCS, IOM, junk-food, Kids health, Marion Nestle, Media to digest, Media-Influence-Kids, Michael Pollan, Morgan Spurlock, nutrition, organics, positive media influence, sat fat, slow food, Talking to Kids About Junk Food, vegetarian kids, vegetarianism, whole foods

HFCS Ad Analysis: Dieticians Dissed, Media Literacy Mandatory

September 10, 2008 by Amy Jussel 13 Comments

When I sounded off in HFCS Corn Wars about the ‘artificial sweetness’ of the ubiquitous HFCS ads, I promised I’d have our own nutrition correspondent, Rebecca Scritchfield weigh in … [Read more...]

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