Aggressive food and beverage marketing targets children, contributing to rising obesity rates.

Stark billboards and television commercials that feature overweight kids are part of a controversial anti-obesity campaign in Atlanta. The goal of the "Stop Sugarcoating It, Georgia" ads is to shock ...

Junk food adverts will be banned on television and online from Monday as plans to tackle childhood obesity come into force across the UK. The ban will stop food and drinks high in fat, salt and sugar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. False, misleading and predatory advertising for unhealthy foods that targets children in New York would face new prohibition under ...

I was listening to a radio talk show recently and the topic was a warning about government interference in our lives. At issue was the suggestion of a law that would help protect children from ...

“Being fat takes the fun out of being a kid,” read graphics of a TV ad in which a young girl tells of how she doesn’t like going to school because she’s bullied over her weight. It is part of a video ...

In New York, outside New York City, rates of obesity among children and adolescents in public school districts have increased more than 13% since the COVID-19 pandemic began, state data show. Nearly ...