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...treated to the sight of one of the competitors - still dressed in his driver's jumpsuit - walking slowly past the officials' stand, one arm held aloft with the middle finger of his hand extended. "My only regret," he later wrote on his blog, "is that I couldn't show both fingers at the same time because I happened to be having a phone conversation...
...Rudd findings, which will be detailed at CerealFacts.org in time for the Obesity Society's annual meeting in Washington on Oct. 26, show that each year preschoolers (ages 2 to 5) see an average of 507 cereal ads that are designed to appeal to kids. The report also details how sugary-cereal makers are interacting with young consumers online through video games like Lucky Charms Charmed Life and Cinnamon Toast Crunch Swirl. (See the 10 worst video-game movies...
About a third of children in the U.S. are considered overweight or obese, and researchers believe television advertising is a significant contributing factor. A study in the July issue of Health Psychology showed that 7-to-11-year-old kids who watched a cartoon peppered with food commercials ate 45% more snacks while viewing the show than did kids who watched the same program without ads. (See the best and worst Super Bowl commercials...
...fruits. While the HSM franchise is built around the preppy, perky and preposterous perspective of the "average American high school," Glee seeks to poignantly tackle social issues like teen pregnancy, sexuality and infidelity. Besides the leap in demographics (would you let your third-grader watch Glee?) and the show's many talented rising stars, Glee strays from the squeaky-clean Disney dogma and gets gritty, gruesome and, most of all, real. Sorry, Troy and Gabriella, but I'm a Gleek...
...lexicon of clichés to describe characters accused of a despicable act, "He was once on a reality show" is the new "Neighbors say he was quiet and kept to himself...