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5 hours ago ago from Young People\'s Media Network (YPMN)
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Advertisements for junk food may be cluttering many of the Web sites most popular with children, a new study suggests. When researchers examined 28 of the Web sites most frequented by children, they found that the majority of food products advertised there met experts' criteria for "foods to avoid." Ads for sugar-laden cereals, candy, soda or fast food populated a majority of the Web sites, which included ...
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14 hours ago ago from Whats Being Heard Online
Just walking through the grocery store what you see all kinds of food labeling that is intended to disguise the true nature of the products. In every aisle you can see food that is supposed to be good for you but in reality is not. This is the worst kind of false advertising. Healthy foods to eat should be easier to find in the supermarket. What's really aggravating is how they will put food labeled as better than health food next to the ...
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21 hours ago ago from facebook news
Junk food manufacturers must remember that they also have kids.Money earned by spoiling children’s ( for that matter any one’s) health is Sin Money. True, parents can not monitor mouse click of children.Solution lies with the Government, which could block this ads or penalize the companies, journalists/media and most importantly with the manufacturers with a conscience. Amy Norton Tue Dec 15, 2009 9:40am EST NEW YORK (Reuters ...
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11 hours ago ago from The Green Dove
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12 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
A new generation of mobile-phone software is helping consumers shop smarter this holiday season. Browsing at a Best Buy Co. store last week, 33-year-old Erik Olson picked up a Blu-ray version of the movie "Heat" and used the camera on his Motorola Inc. Droid smart phone to scan the DVD's bar-code label. Using an application called ShopSavvy, his phone checked prices for the movie at other stores. Best Buy wanted $26, but the phone told him ...
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14 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Henry Waxman apparently has had a change of heart and is now working on a fix for a consumer-product safety law that businesses complain is perilous. The chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee has led the drafting of an amendment to the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act that would make it easier for certain children's product-makers to get exemptions from new lead-limit rules, according to several ...
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