Does Food Marketing Need To Make Us Fat? A Review And Solutions

It does not make anyone fat.

Food marketers are masters at getting people to crave and consume the foods that they promote. In this study authors Dr. Brian Wansink, co-director of the Cornell University Center for Behavioral Economics in Child Nutrition and Professor of Marketing and Dr. Pierre Chandon, professor of Marketing at the leading French graduate school of business, INSEAD challenge popular assumptions that link food marketing and obesity. Their findings presented last weekend at the Association for Consumer Research Conference in Vancouver, Canada point to ways in which smart food marketers can use the techniques that peak consumer appetite for calorie-dense fast foods to help people eat better - and improve their bottom line as well.

Only more Calories in than out make anyone or any creature, for that matter, fat.

It has nothing to do with the marketers.

It has everything to do with the (over)consumers.