Popular children's movies, from "Kung Fu Panda" to "Shrek the Third," contain mixed messages about eating habits and obesity, a new study says.
Many of these animated and live-action movies are guilty of "glamorizing" unhealthy eating and inactivity, while at the same time condemning obesity, according to study corresponding author Dr. Eliana Perrin, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.
She and her colleagues analyzed 20 top-grossing G- and PG-rated movies from 2006 to 2010. Clips from each movie were examined for their depictions of eating, physical activity and obesity.
The findings show that many popular children's movies "present a mixed message to children: promoting unhealthy behaviors while stigmatizing the behaviors' possible effects," the researchers said. http://consumer.healthday.com/kids-health-information-23/adolescents-and-teen-health-news-719/kids-movies-deliver-mixed-messages-on-eating-obesity-682923.html
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