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TV Commercials Promote Childhood Obesity

November 27th, 2009
Boy (7-9) and girl (14-16) relaxing in living room watching television

Approximately 7.7 food commercials per hour appeared in programming on the children’s networks, which is approximately 1 food commercial every 8 minutes.

Eighty percent of MTV food commercials were for fast food restaurants, sugar-added beverages, and sweets -nutritionnews.com

MY COMMENT: Everybody knows about this but what can be done? Get your kids outside, limit tv time, and refuse to buy unhealthy foods.

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