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Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Reitz, Cheryl (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1987
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 135 Document Number: C20717
Journal Title:
Media History Digest
Journal Title Details:
7(1) : 30-35
Subject Term:
accuracy , advertising , appeals (message) , food , health information , history , newspapers , nutrition information , and bias
Notes:
Traces 200 years of food advertising in newspapers and homemaker magazines. Provides examples of exaggerated claims for nutritional and health values of selected food items.