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Cute Cartoons, colours and claims: baby food marketing tactics have exploded in a decade

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By Prisca Petty Arfines
| georgeinstitute.org
Nine in ten baby and toddler food products sold in Australian supermarkets now use marketing techniques designed to appeal to children too young to read, new George Institute for Global Health research reveals. The study, comparing product packaging from 2015 and 2024, found the use of child-directed marketing on infant and toddler foods jumped from 73% to almost 90% in less than a decade, despite growing public health concern about the nutritional quality of these products.
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A Growing Problem: Increases in Child-Appealing Marketing on Infant and Young Children's Foods in Australia (2015 vs 2024)

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By Prisca Petty Arfines, Daisy Coyle, Eden M. Barrett
| Wiley Online Library Verified
1 Introduction The World Health Organization (WHO) and Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) recommend exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of a child's life, followed by continued breastfeeding with solid foods for at least 12 months and up to 2 years or longer, depending on the mother and child's preference (World Health Organization 2023a; National Health and Medical Research Council NHMRC 2013).
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Prevalence and associated factors for prehypertension and hypertension among Indonesian adolescents: a cross-sectional community survey

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By Sudikno Sudikno, Rofingatul Mubasyiroh, Rika Rachmalina, Prisca Petty Arfines
| BMJ Open Verified
Sociodemographic characteristics Table 1 shows a description of the characteristics of the girls and boys who participated in this study. Of the total 2725 individuals, 1416 were female and 1319 were male. In general, the majority of respondents were 17 years old (23%), unmarried (94.3%), junior-high-school graduates (48.9%) and current work status as students/schooling (49.5%). Regarding the location of residence, 52.3% were in rural areas.
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