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.

The biggest news in the kid-and-food world yesterday was an announcement in which Disney promised to phase out the advertising of junk food on its child-directed television channels, web sites and radio stations. The initiative should be enthusiastically applauded.

Mayor Bloomberg is brave to go head-to-head with Big Food by limiting portion size and trying to create a new norm, but this tactic might further distract from the underlying problem of our virtually unregulated toxic and super-sized food supply.

Wednesday, ad consulting company Ace Matrix released its list of the most effective TV commercials of Q3 of 2011, just in time for Advertising Week. A...

In the August 2011 issue of the Journal of Children and Media, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health explore the notion o...

BOSTON - Companies that have pledged not to market unhealthy food and beverages directly to children may be turning to product placement on tele...

Federal guidelines that would help support healthy foods for kids are under attack.

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans are siding with food companies resisting the Obama administration's efforts to pressure them to stop advertising junk ...

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...

GENEVA — The U.N. health agency says world leaders will discuss efforts to clamp down on junk food marketing to children when they meet in New Y...