Targeted marketing of junk food to ethnic minority youth: Fighting back with legal advocacy and community engagement

Advances in Communication Research to Reduce Childhood Obesity

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 389-405

  Kramer, Karen ^a   Schwarte, Liz ^a   Lafleur, Mariah ^b   Williams, Jerome D ^c  

^a ChangeLab Solutions ^*

^b Samuels and Associates   (United States)

^c RUTGERS BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

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

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