The literature is extensive and united when pointing out at the harmful effects of exposing kids to nutritionally poor marketing.

A key reading list:

• Calvert, E. (2021) Food Marketing to Children Needs Rules with Teeth, A snapshot report about how self-regulation fails to prevent unhealthy foods to be marketed to children. Bruxelles: BEUC, pp. 1–24. Download here
• Chester, J., Montgomery, K. C. and Kopp, K. (2021) Big Food, Big Tech, and the Global Childhood Obesity Pandemic. Washington: The Center for Digital Democracy (CDD), pp. 1–72. Download here
• Clark, H. et al. (2020) ‘A future for the world’s children? A WHO–UNICEF–Lancet Commission’, The Lancet, 395(10224), pp. 605–658. Download here
• Escalon, H. et al. (2021) Exposure of French Children and Adolescents to Advertising for Foods High in Fat, Sugar or Salt. Nutrients. Download here
• European Commission. Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (2021) Study on the exposure of children to linear, non-linear and online marketing of foods high in fat, salt or sugar: final report. LU: Publications Office. Download here
• foodwatch (2021) Marktstudie: Fast alle Kinderlebensmittel sind ungesund. Download here
• Garde, A. et al. (2018) A Child Rights-Based Approach to Food Marketing: A Guide for Policy Makers. Geneva: United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), pp. 1–84. Download here
• Signal, L.N., Stanley, J., Smith, M. et al.(2017) Children’s everyday exposure to food marketing: an objective analysis using wearable cameras. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 14, 137. Download here
• Tatlow-Golden, M., Tracey, L. and Dolphin, L. (2016) Who’s feeding the kids online? Digital Food Marketing and Children in Ireland. Dublin: Irish Heart Foundation, pp. 1–68. Download here
• United Nations Children’s Fund and United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food (2019) Protecting Children’s Right to a Healthy Food Environment. Geneva: UNICEF and United Nations Human Rights Council, pp. 1–28. Download here
• WHO European Office for the Prevention and Control of and Noncommunicable Diseases (2021) Digital food environments - Factsheet. Copenhagen, pp. 1–14. Download here
• WHO European Office for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases (NCD Office) (2018) Monitoring and restricting digital marketing of unhealthy products to children and adolescents. Moscow: World Health Organization, pp. 1–85. Download here
• World Health Organization (2010) Set of recommendations on the marketing of foods and non-alcoholic beverages to children. Geneva: World Health Organisation, pp. 1–14. Download here
• World Health Organization (2012) A framework for implementing the set of recommendations on the marketing of foods and non-alcoholic beverages to children. Geneva: World Health Organization, pp. 1–61. Download here
• World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe (2015) Nutrient Profile Model. Download here
• World Health Organization (2018) Evaluating Implementation Of The Who Set Of Recommendations On The Marketing Of Foods And Non Alcoholic Beverages To Children - Progress, challenges and guidance for next steps in the WHO European Region. Copenhagen: World Health Organization, pp. 1–35. Download here
• World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe (2016) Tackling food marketing to children in a digital world: trans-disciplinary perspectives: children’s rights, evidence of impact, methodological challenges, regulatory options and policy implications for the WHO European Region. Copenhagen: World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe, pp. 1–52. Download here
• World Obesity Federation (2021) Digital Deception - The Marketing of Unhealthy Food: Building a Youth-Led Response. London: World Obesity Federation, pp. 1–10. Download here