Marketing of unhealthy food to children

Annotated Bibliography Name: Professor’s name: Institution: Due date: Hebden, L., King, L., Kelly, B., Chapman, K., Innes-Hughes, C., & Gunatillaka, N. (2010). Regulating the types of foods and beverages marketed to Australian children: How useful are food industry commitments? Nutrition & Dietetics, 67(4), 258-266. These article discuses about the regulation of unhealthy foods marketed to children. Marketing of food is identified as one of those aspects that lead to the excess consumption of food by children. In order to acquire profits companies increasingly tend to gain access to children to influence their consumers and them which is unethical. Adult consumers are similar to roaches: they are likely to become “immune” to traditional marketing strategies as well as advertisements. At present, companies tend to avoid this by marketing to young children in its place: money is indirectly taken out from adults by influencing or manipulating their children. There are two major explanations why marketing approaches target children: due to the influential power that children contain over their parents, and for the reason that they are easier to influence. Therefore, parents can be educated on how to prevent consumption of unhealthy foods in children Chung, A., Shill, J., Swinburn, B., Mavoa, H., Lawrence, M., Loff, B., & ... Peeters, A. (2012). An analysis of potential barriers and enablers to regulating the television marketing of unhealthy foods to children at the state government level in Australia. BMC Public Health, 12(1), 1-6. This article discusses about the potential enablers to regulating the marketing of unhealthy foods to children. There have been many calls from governmental and non governmental organizations to stop the marketing of unhealthy food to children. One of the solutions that have been presented ...