Teens ‘overwhelmingly’ engage with junk food brands’ propaganda on social media

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Teens on social media are disproportionately exposed to unhealthy food and drinks, a new study has found. Researchers who worked on the study, published in the journal Appetite, found that 70 percent of young people engaged with food and drink brands on social media in 2017. The majority of those interactions – a whopping 93 percent – were with unhealthy products, according to Food Navigator. The researchers from the UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity conducted a survey that determined teens were “overwhelmingly” engaging with fast food, unhealthy snacks, candy and sugary drink brands. …read more

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