Advertising Seminars

Would you like lies with that?

In September 2007 the Obesity Action Coalition launched Would you like lies with that? – a report on food, kids and TV advertising. The report aims to inform stakeholders about the influence of food and beverage television advertising on children's health.

• Contact info@ana.org.nz to order a free hard copy of this report.

Food Advertising to Children

On the 15 March 2005 ANA hosted a seminar in Wellington on Food Advertising to Children. The seminar included the following presentations:

• Professor Janet Hoek, Department of Marketing, Massey University, Palmerston North – Advertising, Promotion and Obesity: A critical review of the debate
• Celia Murphy, Executive Director, Obesity Action Coalition – Obesity: An environmental disaster
• Professor Gerard Hastings, Director of the Institute for Social Marketing and Centre for Tobacco Control, University of Stirling, Scotland – Food Marketing: What should we do? What do we know now?

• To download a copy of the Review of research on the effects of food promotion to children' prepared for the Food Standards Agency in the UK, discussed in Professor Hastings' presentation see: www.foodstandards.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/foodpromotiontochildren1.pdf.