TV bombards children with commercials for high-fat and high-suga...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Tue, 11/03/2009 - 23:00

(Elsevier Health Sciences) Childhood obesity in the United States is reaching epidemic proportions. With more than one fourth of advertising on daytime and prime time television devoted to foods and beverages and continuing questions about the role television plays in obesity, a study in the November/December issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior examines how food advertising aimed at children might be a large contributor to the problem.

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