ArticlePediatric obesity2021
Examining Chile's unique food marketing policy: TV advertising and dietary intake in preschool children, a pre- and post- policy study.
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- Food marketing, eating and health outcomes in children and adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.The British journal of nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- School environments and obesity: a systematic review of interventions and policies among school-age students in Latin America and the Caribbean.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2023Pooled it
- Learning from Latin America: toward stronger regulation of unhealthy food marketing.Health promotion international · 2026Article
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- Would Reducing Children's Exposure to Food Advertising Prevent Unhealthy Weight Gain?Current obesity reports · 2025Review
- From preschool to policy: A scoping review of recommended interventions for a systems approach to improve dietary intake in early childhood.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025Article
- The impact of exposure to sugary drink marketing on youth brand preference and recall: a cross-sectional and multi-country analysis.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Decreases in purchases of energy, sodium, sugar, and saturated fat 3 years after implementation of the Chilean food labeling and marketing law: An interrupted time series analysis.PLoS medicine · 2024Article
- Survey of Emotional Themes Used in Marketing of Commercial Baby Foods in the UK-Implications for Nutrition Promotion in Early Childhood.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- The Impact of Mandatory Food-Marketing Regulations on Purchase and Exposure: A Narrative Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- The utilisation of legal instruments by United Nations actors to restrict the exposure of children to unhealthy food and beverage marketing: a qualitative content analysis of UN instruments.Globalization and health · 2023Review
- Towards effective restriction of unhealthy food marketing to children: unlocking the potential of artificial intelligence.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2023Article
- News coverage of Mexico's front-of-package food label policy.BMJ global health · 2022Article
- Understanding dental caries as a non-communicable and behavioral disease: Management implications.Frontiers in oral health · 2022Review
- TV advertising and dietary intake in adolescents: a pre- and post- study of Chile's Food Marketing Policy.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe Chilean government implemented the first phase of a comprehensive marketing policy in 2016, restricting child-directed marketing of products high in energy, total sugars, sodium or saturated fat (hereafter "high-in").
objectivesTo examine the role that high-in TV food advertising had in the effect of the policy on consumption of high-in products between 2016 and 2017.
methodsDietary data were obtained from 24-hour diet recall measured in 2016 (n = 940) and 2017 (n = 853), pre- and post-policy, from a cohort of 4 to 6 years children. Television use was linked to analyses of food advertisements to derive individual-level estimates of exposure to advertising. A multilevel mediation analysis examined direct and indirect effects of the policy through advertising exposure.
resultsChildren's high-in food consumption and advertising exposure declined significantly from 2016 to 2017 (P < .01). Consumption changes were not significantly mediated by changes in advertising exposure, which might suggest other elements of the Chilean Law potentially driving decreases in consumption to a greater extent than TV ads.
conclusionsPreschoolers' exposure to high-in advertising and consumption of high-in products decreased post-policy. Further research is needed to understand how marketing changes will relate to dietary changes after full implementation of the law and in the long term.
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