Food Marketing, Television, and Video Games

The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Obesity

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Vandewater, Elizabeth A ^a   Wartella, Ellen A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

American youth; Childhood obesity; Electronic media; Food advertising; Television; Video games

Indexed keywords

EID: 85066699286     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199736362.013.0021     Document Type: Chapter

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