If you wanted to ensure a report gets buried, a good time to release it would be the Friday before a holiday week. That the FTC released its latest report on marketing to children then speaks volumes about how seriously the Obama administration is taking this intractable problem.

It's time we stopped fretting over nutrition standards for marketing to kids and start working on a new strategy to eliminate all food marketing to young children, period.

You probably feel in your gut -- literally -- that food marketing can make you fat. The fact that we're constantly exposed to ads for various products...

Did you ever wonder why more parent-child conflicts occur in the cereal aisle than in the adjoining aisles that sell dried pasta, canned tuna, or paper towels?

Soon after Russ Klein became chief marketing officer at struggling sandwich chain Arby's in January, he commissioned the Boston Consulting Group to co...

Sometimes the lies we create about food can actually do good.

Given all the defeats and set-backs this year due to powerful food industry lobbying, the good food movement should by now be collectively shouting: I am mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore.

WASHINGTON -- Tony the Tiger and Toucan Sam can rest easy. Government officials fine-tuning guidelines for marketing food to children say they won't p...

There are plenty of words that mean nothing on food packages: new and improved, better flavor, artisan. But just like clothes and music, food packagin...

Is the federal government about to put Tony the Tiger out of a job? In the face of a national epidemic of childhood obesity, a collection of federa...

WASHINGTON -- The government is pressuring food companies to cut back on marketing unhealthy foods to children, releasing guidelines Thursday that cou...