SynthesisThe British journal of nutrition2025
Food marketing, eating and health outcomes in children and adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Three-Tier Plate, Triple Win: Health, Sustainability, and Equity in the Slovenian Nutrition Guidelines 2025.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Fixing the food environment: beyond weight-loss drugs.Public health nutrition · 2026Article
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- Commercial determinants of health: case study of ultra-processed food companies in Thailand.Globalization and health · 2025Article
- The association between exposure to food marketing and dietary intake among youth in six countries.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025Article
- A Mixed Method Study Exploring Children and Young People's Perception of Energy Drinks and Analysing Consumption Patterns.Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2025Article
- The power of product: how food advertising affects children's perceptions of child and non-child targeted food advertising?BMC public health · 2025Article
- Youth exposure to unhealthy digital food marketing in relation to race/ethnicity and income adequacy in Canada.BMC nutrition · 2025Article
- Sociodemographic differences in the use of dietary supplements in a representative sample of adults in Poland-a secondary analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Exploring Socioeconomic Disparities in Adults' Interactions with the Digital Food Environment: A Qualitative Study.Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financingArticle
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Abstract
The marketing of unhealthy foods has been implicated in poor diet and rising levels of obesity. Rapid developments in the digital food marketing ecosystem and associated research mean that contemporary review of the evidence is warranted. This preregistered (CRD420212337091) systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to provide an updated synthesis of the evidence for behavioural and health impacts of food marketing on both children and adults, using the 4Ps framework (Promotion, Product, Price, Place). Ten databases were searched from 2014 to 2021 for primary data articles of quantitative or mixed design, reporting on one or more outcome of interest following food marketing exposure compared with a relevant control. Reviews, abstracts, letters/editorials and qualitative studies were excluded. Eighty-two studies were included in the narrative review and twenty-three in the meta-analyses. Study quality (RoB2/Newcastle-Ottawa scale) was mixed. Studies examined 'promotion' (
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