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Kids Think A Blackberry Is A Device Not A Fruit? Eat Real.

October 24, 2011 by Amy Jussel 3 Comments

Oct 24, 2012 Food Day 2012! On Twitter, follow #FoodDayConf with great tips on label lingo, decoding kids aisle food claims. In honor of the day, I'm reprising "Food for Thought: Media to Digest for … [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: Andre Blackman, Appetite for Profit, CCFC, childhood obesity, corporate social responsibility, CSPI, diabetes, digital ads.org, eat real, Fast Food Nation, Fast Forward Health, film festivals, food access, food and beverage, Food Day, food labeling, food marketing, food marketing kids, Food Rules, FoodDay.org, FTC, Healthy eating research, healthy foods, junk-food, media diet, Michael Pollan, Morgan Spurlock, Oct 24, Prevention Institute, School Nutrition Association, Sensible Food Policy, SuperSize Me, sustainable farms, Tom Harkin, voluntary food guidelines

Food Marketing to Kids: Occupy Wall Street Applies Here, Too

October 16, 2011 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

Oct. 16, 2011 It's Blog Action Day today which coincides with United Nations' World Food Day, so my contribution among 80 countries participating is about food policy, profiteering and public health. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Damaging Drek, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Vapid Values Tagged With: #BAD11, advertising to kids, Blog action day, Blog Action Day 2011, CCFC, CDD, childhood obesity, corporate social responsibility, CSPI, diabetes, digital ads.org, eat real, Fast Food Nation, food and beverage, Food Day.org, food marketing, FTC, Healthy eating research, in-school marketing, Interagency Working Group, IWG, junk food in schools, Morgan Spurlock, Occupy Madison Avenue, Occupy Wall Street, Prevention Institute, School Nutrition Association, Sensible Food Policy, SunnyD sugar spree, SuperSize Me, unhealthy products, voluntary food guidelines, We're Not Buyin It, World Food Day

Media, Misinformation and Unhealthy Spin

August 14, 2009 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

August 14, 2009 I'm very thankful that Shaping Youth Nutrition Correspondent Rebecca Scritchfield, RD takes the helm today with her piece "The Price of Misinformation in Media," as I’m trying to … [Read more...]

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G-Force: Can Guinea Pigs Help Kids Get Active? Humana Hopes So!

June 12, 2009 by Amy Jussel 14 Comments

June 12, 2009 Just finished a phone interview with some of the Humana Games for Health team to see if their new free game called OPS (Operation Planet Savers) passed the sniff test of 'goodwashing' in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: 3D animation, active kids, active lifestyle, Add new tag, CDC, COPPA, diabetes, Disney, Disneynature, EARTH, EIU, Environment, field day, fitness, G-Force, gadgets, game developers, gaming for good, get kids moving, gizmos, green, ground attack, Guinea pigs, Hg4H, HopeLab, Horsepower Challenge, humana, Humana Games for Health, HumanaGames, Jerry Bruckheimer, Kids health, NCLI Act, old school, online to offline, Operation Planet Savers, OPS, outdoor play, Playnormous, races, relays, secret agent, sedentary lifestyles, serious-games, spy games, spykids, training missions, Unplug Your Kids, Verb Yellowball, video games

Games For Health Regional Summit: Playnormous, Humana & More

November 9, 2008 by Amy Jussel 9 Comments

Are these critters cute, or what? They're the lil' monsters from our friends at Playnormous, who shared news of a one day event called the Games for Health Regional Summit coming up December … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: 02Fitness, active fitness, BAM, CDC, champions for change, DDR, diabetes, Doug Goldstein, Elf-Island, escape from diab, exergaming, fitness, games for health, gaming, Gaming4Health, Health 2.0, Health eGames, healthy eating, Hg4H, HopeLab, humana, iConecto, iconnecto, iTech Fitness, iZone, Kids, Kids health, kids-fitness, kids.gov, Melanie Mowry, Monster's Blog, network for a healthy california, nutrition, physical education, Playnormous, preventive health, school wellness, Serious games initiative, state wellness mandates, teen gaming gyms, Type 2 diabetes, Verb, Verb yellow ball, virtual nutrition, Whyville, WiiFit, XRKade, yellow ball

“Check It Out! I Got A Sponsor For My Race!” A Wellness Media Mashup

October 29, 2008 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

Belated congratulations to our own Shaping Youth Nutrition MA, RD, and ACSM Certified Health Fitness Correspondent Rebecca Scritchfield, (yes, those letters ALL matter, as she’s worked her tail … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: +3, +3 Network, Americans diabetes, bicycling, causes, charitable giving, children, CSR, cycling, diabetes, Diabetes Action Team, diabetes prevention, Diabetes Research and Education, diabetic connect, dietary intake, dlife.com, fitness, fitness challenge, fundraising, globesity, goals, GPS mobile, health, Health 2.0, I survived Hurricane Hannah, IDEO, iphone apps, Making it count, marathons, Marine Corp Marathon, Me to We, millennials, motivation, nutrition, Plus 3 Network, Plus3 Network, privacy data, race, Rebeca Boyte, Rebecca Scritchfield, rewards, Rick Sutton, runners, running, safe routes to school, social networking, social-media, sponsors, sweat equity into social currency, teens, The Tech, track, Trek, Tudiabetes, wellness, Wellness 2.0

Youth Riffs On HFCS Ads: Web 2.0 Satire Is Snowballing

September 23, 2008 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

What do ants and rubber tree plants have to do with syrupy HFCS ads and high hopes for the future of youth media mobilization? Stay with me after the jump to find out... Last week I wrote about my … [Read more...]

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