...Charlene Elliott; Emily Truman; Jordan LeBel Purpose Food marketing has long been recognized to influence food preferences, consumption and health, yet little is known about the nature and extent of food marketing to young adults – especially with respect to their real-world encounters with food...

...Ulla-Maija Sutinen; Roosa Luukkonen; Elina Närvänen Purpose This study aims to examine adolescents’ social media environment connected to unhealthy food marketing. As social media have become a ubiquitous part of young people’s everyday lives, marketers have also shifted their focus...

... the range of visual techniques used in Instagram food marketing to teenagers. Design/methodology/approach A participatory study was conducted with 57 teenagers, who used a specially designed mobile app to capture images of the teen-targeted food marketing they encountered for seven days. A visual...

... screen-time activities, as well as fear of allowing children to go outside and play changed eating patterns (e.g. the trend towards meal consumption outside of the home and fast food meals) and food marketing (e.g. astute advertising targeted to children, increased development and availability of energy...