Challenges and Opportunities
FOR CHANGE IN FOOD MARKETING TO CHILDREN AND YOUTH
Workshop Summary
Heather Breiner, Lynn Parker, and Steve Olson, Rapporteurs
Standing Committee on Childhood Obesity Prevention
Food and Nutrition Board
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PLANNING COMMITTEE ON NEW CHALLENGES
AND OPPORTUNITIES IN FOOD MARKETING
TO CHILDREN AND YOUTH1
WILLIAM H. DIETZ (Chair), Retired Director, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
KELLY D. BROWNELL, Director, Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
THOMAS N. ROBINSON, Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University, California
MARY T. STORY, Senior Associate Dean and Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota
ELLEN WARTELLA, Al-Thani Professor of Communication, Professor of Psychology, and Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and Director of the Center on Median and Human Development, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
IOM Staff
LYNN PARKER, Scholar
HEATHER BREINER, Associate Program Officer
SARAH SIEGEL, Senior Program Assistant
SARAH ZIEGENHORN, Research Assistant
ANTON L. BANDY, Financial Associate
GERALDINE KENNEDO, Administrative Assistant
LINDA D. MEYERS, Director, Food and Nutrition Board
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DAVID V. B. BRITT, Sesame Workshop (Retired)
ELIZABETH CAMPBELL, Dr. Robert C. and Veronica Atkins Center for Weight & Health, University of California, Berkeley
ELAINE D. KOLISH, Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative
ROBIN McKINNON, National Cancer Institute
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Contents
1 INTRODUCTION AND THEMES OF THE WORKSHOP
2 PROGRESS SINCE FOOD MARKETING TO CHILDREN AND YOUTH: THREAT OR OPPORTUNITY?
Progress Toward Achieving the Recommendations of the IOM Report
3 EMERGING ISSUES IN FOOD MARKETING
Integrated Marketing Communications
Marketing Targeting Low-Income and Minority Communities
4 INNOVATIONS AND FUTURE WORK IN INDUSTRY PRACTICES
Healthy Food Marketing Initiatives in Retail Chains
Progress to Date and Future Directions for the Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative
Changing Company-Wide Marketing Practices at The Walt Disney Company