Campbell said that no prior research has shown that kids relate overweight people by eating low-nutrition foods or that kids stereotype cartoon characters. "The fact that just the exposure to ...

(More on Time.com: Are Cartoon Characters Coaxing Kids to Eat Junk Food?) The other variable the group tested was the name of the cereal — one of the penguin-containing packages was called ...

Nestle shares more than 250 of her favorite cartoons and comics in her new book, Eat, Drink, Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Food Politics, (Rodale Books, $18.99) created in collaboration with The ...

Children can be convinced to eat their greens if they are advertised in the same way as junk food. Pupils who were shown posters of cartoon vegetable characters at the school canteen were up to ...