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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.

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.

British Columbia pediatrician says the association of sponsors like Coca-Cola with the Olympic Games is disappointing and potentially damaging to children.

Utah lawmaker wants to earn some green for schools by selling ad space on kids' buses.

Children are being paid up to £25 a week to promote sugary soft drinks and other products through social networking sites and playground chat.

Marketers are getting subtler and trickier to advertise to kids in school and out.

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.

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.

A new study shows that advertisers use product placement in movies to aggressively market unhealthy food to children.

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.

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.

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.

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.

New service gives kids "kwedit" to buy virtual goods online. They can pay back their debt at a 7-Eleven and get a discount Slurpee while they're at it, or choose to "pass the duck" to their parents for repayment. Good lessons for children?

In an effort to protect children from "the nasties," product placement of a variety of food and drinks will not be allowed when the UK lifts its ban on product placement in TV programmes.

New poll shows almost 9 in 10 American teenage girls say they feel pressured by the fashion and media industries to be skinny.

Children in Washington may soon be boarding advertising-strewn school buses.

Citing a 2007 "Journal of Pediatrics" article recommending that parents "limit their children's exposure to Baby Einstein products," California parents file law suit against Disney, demanding fuller rebates.

Parents be warned and take action: On Nick.com you'll find links to AddictingGames.com, "a decided child-unfriendly website."

Concerned that "cult of the body" advertising contributes to girls' eating disorders, Spain bans TV advertising for plasic surgery, slimming products and some beauty products before the 10pm hour.