Food and Beverage Marketing in Schools: A Review of the Evidence.

ABSTRACT: Despite growing interest from government agencies, non-governmental organizations and school boards in restricting or regulating unhealthy food and beverage marketing to children, limited research has examined the emerging knowledge base regarding school-based food and beverage marketing in high-income countries. This review examined current approaches for measuring school food and beverage marketing practices, and evidence regarding the extent of exposure and hypothesized associations with children's diet-related outcomes. Five databases (MEDLINE, Web of Science, CINAHL, Embase, and PsycINFO) and six grey literature sources were searched for papers that explicitly examined school-based food and beverage marketing policies or practices. Twenty-seven papers, across four high-income countrie

SUBMITTER: Velazquez CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5615591 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature