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Senators Speak-Out about Nickelodeon Junk Food

A coalition is astir. Mothers are being heard. Children are not pawns to be used for gain. Junk food marketing to children must stop. “ " Over the past three decades, childhood obesity has doubled among children and tripled among adolescents, according to the Center for Disease Control and...

Food and Beverage Companies Have Broken Their Promise to Latino Children

“I pinky promise!” my son told me when I asked if he was going to eat all his vegetables. To break that promise would have violated his tween ethical code. It was a solemn oath, one of the greatest any child could give. In 2007, major food and beverage companies made their own pinky promise to...

What I really want for Mother’s Day: McD’s to stop marketing to my kid #MomsNotLovinIt

It’s 7am. I say -- for the eleventh time -- “J., let’s put on your shoes.” At 7:05, I say again, “J., time to put on your shoes.” Next day? Same words, same scene. But, I swear, there’s no repeating necessary when it comes to Elmo. That little red Muppet caught my 17-month-old son’s attention in an...

When Big Pharma “Strong” Arms Mothers, We All Lose

via The Broad Side Corporations have a very bad habit of telling moms how to be. Or better yet, co-opting some very common “mom” archetypes for their marketing pursuits. For decades, we were told “Choosy Moms Choose Jif.” More recently, “It Moms” were more likely to choose a particular fabric...