Familiar mascots like the Milky Bar Kid, talking M&Ms and the Honey Monster could disappear from shelves and screens under new legislation which would ban companies using child-friendly characters ...

Cartoon characters should be banned from promoting junk food to help curb ... from popular movies would no longer appear on the packaging or adverts for fast food. Did you know with a Digital ...

"This study really nails it down. Now we have evidence for asking--no, requiring--food marketers to stop using cartoons to market junk foods to kids." The American Psychological Association and ...

Cartoon characters should be banned from promoting junk food to improve ... summer blockbuster would no longer appear on the packaging or adverts for fast food. But characters such as the Jolly ...

In the no-sticker condition ... efforts to put licensed characters on healthy foods, the vast majority of cartoon characters still appear on junk food products. The study notes that, for example ...

At a primary school outside Delhi, Aditi Mehrotra stood before a class of second graders to talk about a growing menace: junk food. With no patience for side chatter, Mehrotra, a seasoned ...

The new rules, which won’t take effect until 2015, mean that fast-food, candy and junk-food ads will be dropped from kids’ programming, including Saturday morning cartoons that air on Disney ...

Parents want junk food firms to be banned ... sugary and salty foods. "We are calling on companies to no longer use cartoons to promote unhealthy foods. With parents fed up with the amount of ...