The products will require warning labels. Additional flavors are in the works. Plenty of foods and beverages. Television ads provide a national, culturally shared frame of reference. Several studies have found that television advertising influences foods requested, purchased, preferred and consumed.
Television ads can also create misperceptions among children about the value of advertised foods.
When comparing food and beverage ads shown during prime time in the early and late 1990s, researchers Carol Byrd-Bredbenner and Darlene Grasso found that approximately 30 percent of all nonprogram time was used to promote upcoming television programs. More than one-quarter of these promotions included background smoking, eating, alcohol drinking or food handling activities. Alcohol was exclusively depicted in a positive and glamorous manner. Byrd-Bredbenner and Grasso also report that the health information included in promotions for news shows tends to be sensational. Unfortunately, sensationalized health information presented in 30-second sound bites may trivialize or oversimplify complex health issues.