Key features

• •How the notion of "picky eating" undermines kids' diets from an early age--and how parents' anxieties about pickiness are stoked and exploited by industry marketing
• •Why school meals can still look like fast food, even after well-publicized federal reforms
• •Fact-twisting nutrition claims on grocery products, including how statements like "made with real fruit" can actually mean a product is less healthy
• •The aggressive marketing of junk food to even the youngest children, often through sophisticated digital techniques meant to bypass parents' oversight
• •Children's menus that teach kids all the wrong lessons about what "their" food looks like
• •The troubling ways adults exploit kids' love of junk food--including to cover shortfalls in school budgets, control classroom behavior, and secure children's love