TV Commercials Promote Childhood Obesity
November 27th, 2009
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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