Food ads linked to eating more junk food
Los Angeles: Watching food advertisements by parents leads to greater consumption of junk food by their children, as the kids often have distorted views on what constitutes a healthy meal, researchers have found. Kristen Harrison and
Harrison and Peralta interviewed over 100 parents about a wide variety of home and family characteristics, including child and parent media exposure and child dietary intake.
They conducted separate interviews with children in pre-schools to get a sense of what children thought made up a healthy meal.