Nutrition professor Marion Nestle says cartoons can spotlight food politics She shares more than 250 of her favorite cartoons in her new book Her goal%3A Have people get active in food politics When ...

Well, sort of. As with most other fast food chains, there’s a brand universe, populated by talking animals and burglarizing burger-lovers and all sorts of whacky characters, and Loco’l is no different ...

A new study finds that when kids see familiar and favorite characters from cartoons or movies on food packaging, they tend to like that food more. That may not seem like such a revelation, but ...

One of the best things about childhood is watching cartoons and eating ice cream, candies, and all kinds of forbidden junk food. As we grow up, we might still love ice cream, but somehow fail to match ...

Mothers forced to buy unhealthy foods for their nagging children. Aug. 16, 2011— -- It's a tried-and-true marketing method: Slap a famous cartoon on food boxes and odds are children will be more ...

For her latest incursion into the dizzying world of food politics, award-winning author and public health advocate Marion Nestle didn’t so much have to choose her words wisely as draw from the flood ...

CU-Boulder study finds plump cartoon characters drive kids to junk food Children tend to reach for low-nutrition, high-calorie food — and more of it — after seeing cartoon characters that seem ...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a political cartoon has got to be worth about double that. That’s about … the average length of one of my pieces. Like a good cartoon, Nestle’s main point makes ...

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Well, our annual Food Issue is out. As I point out in the video above (the second episode of our new series, The Cartoon Lounge), it’s delicious and gluten-free. That’s partly because the issue ...

The new Cartoon Network Hotel opens at 6 a.m. on Friday (today) next to Dutch Wonderland at 2285 Lincoln Highway East in East Lampeter Township, Lancaster County. The new hotel is more just just a ...