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SynthesisAdvances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.)2023

The Effects of Food Advertisements on Food Intake and Neural Activity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Recent Experimental Studies.

Pablo Arrona-Cardoza, Katherine Labonté, José Miguel Cisneros-Franco, Daiva E Nielsen

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Synthesis in Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Impact of food, beverage, and alcohol brand marketing on consumptive behaviors and health in children and adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025
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  3. Length and Framing of Anti-Junk Food Ads Impact Inclinations to Consume Junk Food Among Normal Weight, Overweight, and Adults With Obesity.Health promotion journal of Australia : official journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals · 2026
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  8. Beyond individual interventions: advancing systems thinking in the clinical management of obesity.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2025
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  9. Use of Mukbang in Health Promotion: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Pablo Arrona-CardozaSchool of Human Nutrition, McGill University, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada.
Katherine LabontéSchool of Human Nutrition, McGill University, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada.
José Miguel Cisneros-FrancoSchool of Human Nutrition, McGill University, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada; Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Daiva E NielsenSchool of Human Nutrition, McGill University, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada. Electronic address: daiva.nielsen@mcgill.ca.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Food advertisements are ubiquitous in our daily environment. However, the relationships between exposure to food advertising and outcomes related to ingestive behavior require further investigation. The objective was to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of behavioral and neural responses to food advertising in experimental studies. PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus were searched for articles published from January 2014 to November 2021 using a search strategy following PRISMA guidelines. Experimental studies conducted with human participants were included. A random-effects inverse-variance meta-analysis was performed on standardized mean differences (SMD) of food intake (behavioral outcome) between the food advertisement and nonfood advertisement conditions of each study. Subgroup analyses were performed by age, BMI group, study design, and advertising media type. A seed-based d mapping meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies was performed to evaluate neural activity between experimental conditions. Nineteen articles were eligible for inclusion, 13 for food intake (n = 1303) and 6 for neural activity (n = 303). The pooled analysis of food intake revealed small, but statistically significant, effects of increased intake after viewing food advertising compared with the control condition among adults and children (adult SMD: 0.16; 95% CI: 0.03, 0.28; P = 0.01; I

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AdvertisingFeeding BehaviorAdultChildEatingHumansSeedsfood advertisingfood intakemeta-analysisneural activityneuroimaging

Identifiers

PMID36914293
PMCPMC10229379

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