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New Nutritional Standards for Disney

August 15, 2013

Walt Disney is the latest company to jump on the childhood anti-obesity band wagon. Today Disney will announce a new initiative to advertise healthier food products on all its media platforms for children.  The company says that ads for sugary cereals and junk foods will eventually be phased out, and by 2015 all companies advertising food […]

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