Eye on Marketers

Nestle discusses the pros and cons of the new food plate that replaced the food pyramid. One of her critiques is that protein is a nutrient and not a food.

The Yale Rudd Center has published a study that analyzes the industry self-regulatory pledges to curb marketing to children. It concludes that the pledges will result in few significant reductions in children’s exposure to unhealthy food marketing.

Newman-Carrasco provides tips and resources to advertisers to make their marketing culturally relevant and targeted to Latinos. These include going to Latino theater companies, listening to audio on the Immigrant Archive Project website, reading Latino blogs, and "understanding the breadth of Latino music genres."