Children’s exposure to food and beverage advertising on television: Tracking calories and nutritional content by company membership in self-regulation

Advances in Communication Research to Reduce Childhood Obesity

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 179-195

  Powell, Lisa M ^a   Schermbeck, Rebecca M ^a   Szczypka, Glen ^a   Chaloupka, Frank J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5511-0     Document Type: Chapter

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