Are Fast Food Ads Making American Kids Fat?
The Associated Press
Published: November 20, 2008
ATLANTA (AP) - A restaurant industry spokeswoman says a new study linking obesity and fast-food ads is based on old information.
At issue is a study suggesting that banning fast-food ads on TV could reduce the number of obese young children by 18 percent. The number of obese older kids could drop by 14 percent.
The study is based in part on several years of government survey data from the late 1990s. A spokeswoman for the National Council of Chain Restaurants says restaurant menus have changed a lot since then, including healthier options.
She also argues that parents—not kids—have control over most of a family’s food spending.
The study is being published this month in the Journal of Law & Economics.
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NO,It’s not the ads! It’s the lazy parents that are making their kids fat.
Unless they are eating the paper ads this is bullcrap.
A child will do what the parent allows them to do and if not then the parent has a problem. Regulate what they eat and what they watch. Thats a parenting issue not an “ad” issue.
Why does this country have to try and place blame on someone or something other than themself.
These individuals running statistics need to find something better to do like maybe the drug or crime problems in America or one of the many others we are facing.
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