Nutrition professor Marion Nestle says cartoons can spotlight food politics She shares more than 250 of her favorite cartoons in her new book Her goal%3A Have people get active in food politics When ...

Well, sort of. As with most other fast food chains, there’s a brand universe, populated by talking animals and burglarizing burger-lovers and all sorts of whacky characters, and Loco’l is no different ...

Mothers forced to buy unhealthy foods for their nagging children. Aug. 16, 2011— -- It's a tried-and-true marketing method: Slap a famous cartoon on food boxes and odds are children will be more ...

A new study finds that when kids see familiar and favorite characters from cartoons or movies on food packaging, they tend to like that food more. That may not seem like such a revelation, but ...

One of the best things about childhood is watching cartoons and eating ice cream, candies, and all kinds of forbidden junk food. As we grow up, we might still love ice cream, but somehow fail to match ...

For her latest incursion into the dizzying world of food politics, award-winning author and public health advocate Marion Nestle didn’t so much have to choose her words wisely as draw from the flood ...

CU-Boulder study finds plump cartoon characters drive kids to junk food Children tend to reach for low-nutrition, high-calorie food — and more of it — after seeing cartoon characters that seem ...

Like a good cartoon, Nestle’s main point makes the complex stunningly simple: The food Americans choose has already been chosen for them. What looks like a personal, or scientific, decision (to just ...

Study finds junk-food marketing changes the tastes of kids as young as age 4. June 21, 2010— -- For generations now, the grocery store tantrum has marked a rite of passage for parents. Somewhere ...

There are quite a few cartoon foods we’re glad aren’t real: spoo, for example, a substance described as “meat jello,” that’s made an appearance on not one, but two cartoons. Other disturbing foods ...

The new Cartoon Network Hotel opens at 6 a.m. on Friday (today) next to Dutch Wonderland at 2285 Lincoln Highway East in East Lampeter Township, Lancaster County. The new hotel is more just just a ...