Friday, January 13, 2012

NUTRITION Can Online Games Influence What Kids Eat?

Do you know what an advergame is? Your kids do, and these games are affecting what they are eating

Children are an advertiser’s dream, and if you have any doubt about that, just take a stroll through a toy store or your local grocer’s with one of these trusting, impressionable tykes in tow. You’ll know what I mean.
As if the ads on TV for the latest toy, fast food, sugary snacks and fat-laden meals weren’t bad enough, now researchers say you have to worry about another insidious way that manufacturers are appealing to the youngest among us — advergames.



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