Health Stores

In this bonus clip from the “NPT Reports: Children’s Health Crisis: Obesity” documentary, you can go grocery shopping with Food Marketing Specialist Tammy Algood. Algood reveals some of the “secrets” behind food marketing in grocery stores. Learn how store layout and food packaging is used to manipulate consumers into buying high profit-margin items — much of which is not as healthy as it may appear. Tips include: how to read food labels; how to shop for cereals and yogurt; advice on sugary drinks and what exactly “sugar free” means.