Children consume more high-calorie food such as cookies and candy after observing egg-shaped cartoon characters that they perceive to be overweight a study said. Children tend to perceive ovoid or egg-shaped characters as overweight even though the creatures are imaginary and seeing them can influence children to eat more unhealthy food found the study. They have a tendency to eat almost twice as much indulgent food as kids who are exposed to perceived healthier looking cartoon characters or no characters at all said lead author of the study Margaret Campbell marketing professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the
