News and Opinion
There are stories relating to obesity breaking around the world every day. The stories below are those where journalists haver sought NOF opnion/quotes or summaries of research on which NOF may have a view. Where possible the source of the stories are identified by the newspaper banner or a URL in red.
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Junk food adverts really do make children hungry for unhealthy meals, say scientists
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- Published on Wednesday, 29 June 2011
There are renewed calls for a 9pm watershed ban for TV food commercials as Liverpool University researchers find that children aged six to 13 who were shown commercials for high fat and high carbohydrate foods were more likely to pick meals that were bad for them
This is yet more evidence that TV food advertising influences bad food choices. At the same time the food industry insists that banning the commercials won’t solve anything. The alternative it must face is regulation requiring that all TV food ads must meet the FSA food profile.
This research comes only a day after the US Academy of Pediatrics released a policy statement [June 27th] linking TV ads and obesity. Not surprisingly the US food industry came up with the same knee jerk reaction rubbishing the criticism. Responsibility deal! What responsibility deal?