Discussion
eating behaviors
A total of 33 participants were included in Black youth and communities are inundated with food ads primarily promoting foods high in fat, sugar, and salt [We found support for our first hypothesis that the study would be feasible based on high retention and completion rates of procedures. A larger study will require adjustments to the protocol to ensure alignment with current cultural trends and popular media. For instance, youth viewed an episode of the We did not find support for our second aim regarding a significant effect of racially-targeted food ads on energy intake. We conducted a Our third aim was to examine food-related ABs as a potential mechanism by which food ads impact eating behaviors. We did not find a significant initial effect of high food-related ABs on energy intake or an interaction effect between exposure to racially-targeted ads and demonstrating high food-related ABs. Studies examining the association between food-related ABs and eating are mixed [Limitations include the small sample size, which reduced our ability to detect statistically and clinically meaningful differences. Further, with small sample sizes, subgroup analyses can be misleading, and thus we have interpreted these data with caution. To prevent an effect of extreme hunger on the AB task [