Visual communication to children in the supermarket context: Health protective or exploitive?

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 333-348

  Berry, Brent ^a   McMullen, Taralyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breakfast cereals; Child targeted marketing; Grocery store; Nutrition; Refined grains; Sugar; Supermarket; Trans fats

Indexed keywords

EID: 48449104841     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10460-007-9110-0     Document Type: Article

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