As part of the Children's Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative, many of the nation's largest food and drink companies agreed to use advertising to encourage healthier choices for childrens' food.

A federal judge has denied Burger King’s motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit, allowing claims that the fast-food chain ...

Fast food mascots were everywhere in the 1980s and 1990s, but only a few remain today. Here are the quirky characters we'd ...

The Australian government has been investigating whether we should ban unhealthy food advertising online, and how it could work. In the United Kingdom, a ban on unhealthy food and drink advertising ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Banning fast-food advertising on television in the United States could reduce the number of overweight children by as much as 18 percent, researchers said on Wednesday.

For many of us, childhood memories are tied not just to toys or old cartoons, but also to the jingles, commercials, and iconic mascots that accompanied a trip to our favorite fast-food restaurant.

For anyone who grew up in the 1990s, fast food was more than a convenience. It was a ritual, a reward, a family tradition, ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Malaysia's health ministry is considering a ban on fast-food advertisements because the meals they promote are considered "silent killers", the Star newspaper reported ...

Pre-school age children who are exposed to child-targeted fast-food advertising on television are considerably more likely to consume fast-food products, according to a recent Dartmouth-led study ...

Children are impressionable, especially when it comes to junk food, so it was a smart move that the White House and the U.S.Department of Agriculture announced on Tuesday a new measure that forbids ...

Christine Parker receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. Tanita Northcott does not work for, consult, ...