<span itemprop="author">Lindsey Smith Taillie, PhD, MPH

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From Super Bowl to supermarket: How candy ads shape kids’ diets

A gummy candy shimmies on stage, dancing to Flashdance. The music swells; it pulls a chain and is showered in multi-colored candies. The ad, for Nerds Gummy Clusters, was one of dozens of food ads that 123 million people saw during the 2024 Super Bowl….