Food marketing to youth: Current threats and opportunities

Childhood Obesity

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 85-88

  Schwartz, Marlene B ^a   Ustjanauskas, Amy ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATERING SERVICE; CHILD; FOOD; FOOD INDUSTRY; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MARKETING; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

CHILD; FOOD; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD SUPPLY; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMANS; MARKETING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84859529070     PISSN: 21532168     EISSN: 21532176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/chi.2012.0082.schw     Document Type: Review

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