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The mixed messages around children, food and weight - not to mention sophisticated marketing - can leave parents perplexed. But there are ways to wade through it all and find healthy choices.
As more and more children embrace meat-free diets, using ‘Chicken Run’ to promote burgers may no longer work for fast food chains.
Marketers take advantage of the fact that children sometimes can’t recognise the difference between product placement and advertising.
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