Welcome to “the last bite,” an end-of-week food and ag roundup from the Minnesota Star Tribune. Reach out to business reporter Brooks Johnson at [email protected] to share your news and ...

Adverts for popular breakfast staples like porridge, muesli and crumpets will soon be banned under the UK’s strict new junk food advertising rules. The legislation, aimed at tackling childhood obesity ...

Sara Moniuszko is a health and lifestyle reporter at CBSNews.com. Previously, she wrote for USA Today, where she was selected to help launch the newspaper's wellness vertical. She now covers breaking ...

US can't address obesity crisis "unless the marketing is drastically lowered." The inundation of junk food advertising is contributing to the rising rate of teen obesity -- a public health crisis ...

A study looked at a year of TV ads on a major, free channel in Australia. A new study in Australia looked at how much junk food advertising kids were exposed to and the numbers were staggering. Food ...

New regulations published by the UK government on pre-watershed adverts for HFSS foods and drinks have met criticism for favouring brands offering less healthy products. A detailed “statutory ...

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 ...

(CNN) — This Super Bowl Sunday, keep an eye out for bad calls, fouls and dangerous sodium levels. Foods advertised in National Football League commercials contain an average of nearly 40% of the daily ...

Children’s TV programming and junk food have been tied since the beginnings of the medium, as in the above video of an early Mickey Mouse Club, sponsored by “your friendly neighbor who bottles ...