The "top three advertisers of packaged-foods to children," General Mills, Kellogg and Kraft Foods, along with the Grocery Manufacturers of America [3] and several advertising [4] associations, "have created a lobbying group to defend the right to advertise to kids." The new group, the Alliance for American Advertising, states, "There is not a correlation between advertising trends and recent childhood obesity [5] trends." The Alliance hopes to avoid federal regulation, using tactics that echo "earlier efforts by the tobacco [6] and alcohol industries." In other food news [7], a "U.S. appeals court ruled that McDonald's [8] must face a suit by New York teenagers" who blame the fast food giant for their obesity and health problems.