Koop member Jennifer Emond looked at preschool-age kids’ exposure to TV ads for 10 specific high-sugar cereal brands and subsequent intake of advertised cereal. The study, the first of its kind in a naturalistic setting, found that commercial exposure was prospectively associated with brand-specific high-sugar cereal consumption. Read more here.
Archive for December, 2018
Koop associate director weighs in on future of nicotine-addicted youth
For years now public health officials have weighed the pros of e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation aid against the very real appeal they pose to a generation who likely wouldn’t have otherwise experimented with tobacco. Now we are seeing the evidence. According to the annual “Monitoring the Future” survey, the […]