Abstract
Unhealthy food in advertising has been suggested as a mediator for the increase in diet-related illness. This study quantitatively investigates changes in food advertising between 1995 and 2014 in terms of food categories promoted, macronutrient content, and percentage of foods classified as heathy or unhealthy from a sample of 7,199 ads from three Swedish food magazines. With the exception of increased alcoholic beverage and decreased carbohydrate-rich-food promotion, no monotonic trends of increasingly unhealthy food advertisement are found. From these findings, it is argued that food magazine advertising is not a mediator of the adverse dietary trend.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 45-61 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Ecology of Food and Nutrition |
Volume | 56 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2017 Jan 2 |
Externally published | Yes |
Free keywords
- Food advertising
- media
- nutrition
- obesity
- Sweden
- time trend