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Campaign For A Commercial Free Childhood
Campaign For A Commercial-Free Childhood is a national coalition of health care professionals, educators, advocacy groups and concerned parents who counter the harmful effects of marketing to children through action, advocacy, education, research, and collaboration. We support the rights of children to grow up and the rights of parents to raise them without being undermined by rampant commercialism. CCFC is headquartered at the NonProfit Center in Boston.
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Most Food and Entertainment Companies Get Failing Grade for Policies on Marketing Food to Children
The Center for Science in the Public Interest issued a report card that rates companies policies with regard to food marketing aimed at children. Three-quarters of companies are getting an F, either for having weak policies or for failing to have any policies whatsoever.
Kick Back and Endure Being Bored and Uncomfortable
Dr. Clive Hamilton discusses the importantance of idleness and boredom for imaginative well-being--especially for children, who today "live in a fantasy world created by American film and television producers."
Study: Violent Video Game Play Makes More Aggressive Kids
Comprehensive study proves conclusively that exposure to violent video games makes more aggressive, less caring kids.
Cross-promotions Replace TV Junk Food Advertising
Restrictions on food television commercials aimed at children may have reduced the number of kids TV food ads, but children are increasingly being targeted with cross-promotional tactics and product placement.
Kids and Advertising: Mommy That's My Bestest Brand
New study shows kids as young as 3 recognize brands and are affected by advertising. "Whether its McDonalds or Mitsubishi, children as young as three are quick to identify a brand and decipher its message."
Too Much Media Could Hurt Kids' Health: Study
Children and teens spend about as much time with media as they do sleeping, and the overexposure could take a toll on their health, a new U.S. study suggests.
Marketing Works on Preschoolers: Study
Children as young as three years old recognize brands and are vulnerable to advertising, contrary to past research that suggested such marketing only had an impact on older kids, according to a new study.
More Towns Seeking Sponsors, Ads to Balance Books
Some MA schools are considering allowing companies to advertise in schools and school buses, despite the risks that advertising to a captive audience of children presents. CCFC's Josh Golin comments on why ads in schools are a bad idea.
Hey, Kids, Look! Look! Over here! Buy This Food-Like Product! Kids! Yoo-hoo!
While the food industry claims to be self-regulating marketing to children, a new Yale study finds that companies are using more familiar characters, celebrities, toys and movie giveaways on packaging than ever before to market junk food to kids in the supermarket.
MD Critical of Coke's Olympic Sponsorship
British Columbia pediatrician says the association of sponsors like Coca-Cola with the Olympic Games is disappointing and potentially damaging to children.
Bill Would Allow Ads on School Buses
Utah lawmaker wants to earn some green for schools by selling ad space on kids' buses.
Child 'Mini-Marketeers' Paid by Junk Food Firms to Secretly Push Products Among Their Friends
Children are being paid up to £25 a week to promote sugary soft drinks and other products through social networking sites and playground chat.
A Fine Line When Ads and Children Mix
Marketers are getting subtler and trickier to advertise to kids in school and out.
Online Advertising Easily Influences Teens to Eat More Junk Food
Teenagers are strongly affected by Internet marketing in a way that has yet to be addressed by scientific research or government regulation, a group of scientists warns.
Soda: A Sin We Can Sip Instead of Smoke?
In critics' eyes, producers of sugar-sweetened drinks are acting a lot like the tobacco industry of old: marketing heavily to children, claiming their products are healthy or at worst benign, and lobbying to prevent change.
Movies Loaded With Images of Junk Food
A new study shows that advertisers use product placement in movies to aggressively market unhealthy food to children.
Cutting the Fat From Advertising
What are the effects of using free toys, sponsorship and famous characters to advertise junk food to children? The author of a new study aims to find out.
Child Obesity Risks Death at Early Age, Study Finds
A rare study that tracked thousands of children through adulthood found the heaviest youngsters were more than twice as likely as the thinnest to die prematurely.
Childhood Obesity: It's Not the Amount of TV, It's the Number of Junk Food Commercials
The association between television viewing and childhood obesity is directly related to children's exposure to commercials that advertise unhealthy foods, according to a new UCLA School of Public Health study published in the American Journal of Public Health.
Study: 3 Family Habits May Fight Childhood Obesity
New study shows that 4-year-olds who eat dinner with their families, get more sleep, and watch less TV are much less likely to be obese.
