In The Battle To Improve Food Marketing Influencing Children's Diets, Mixed Progress Made By US Government And Schools

Advertising does not appreciably affect children's diets.

New research has found that the US government and schools have made mixed progress to comprehensively address food and beverage marketing practices that put young people's health at risk. A comprehensive review published in the March issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine finds that public sector stakeholders have failed to fully implement recommendations from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to support a healthful diet to children and adolescents.

What affects children's diets is the food and drink adults give them.

Period.