Will banning fast food adverts during children's adverts realy work in stopping obesity?

Question

Opinions and scientific information are welcome as answers.
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Answer 1

I don't think it will, my kids eat what I say. If we go to Mcds etc it's because it's my choice, not because they saw an advert on tv. If kids eat at these places more than once a week then it's the parents fault, not an adverts. Thats my opinion, I don't have any scientific info on this, just my common sense!!

Answer 2

I doubt it. In this age of single parent families and families where both the parents work, a lot of these kids are raised on fast food because after a long day, mom or dad doesn't want to slave over a hot stove. It is different than when I grew up (I am 44 years old). My mom was a housewife and she cooked complete meals (Meat, potatoes, and a vegetable). Eating at a fast food restaurant was a rare treat usually reserved for long trips or when we were in a hurry. What you learn as a youngster usually stays with you as an adult. When I finally lived on my own, I learned to cook so even to this day I have rarely eaten fast food. I usually do when I am in a hurry or when I am travelling and a fast food restaurant is the only place around.

Answer 3

Oh I think it would help. I know that when I was a child I would see the McDonald's commercials and then think about McDonald's more often or want whatever toy they were giving away in the Happy Meal. It was my mother's fault for stopping the car and taking me there but I was a pain in the a*s kid who threw fits if I didn't get what I wanted. She didn't see a problem with fast food and I certainly didn't have a weight problem as a child but I come from a family who certainly lacks that 'fat gene' anyway. If anything the fast food commercials just cause more stress for the parents because parents who give into their children's wishes too easily are being nagged more often about stopping for fast food. It just makes parenting tougher and a lot of parents today are too worried about being 'mean' to their kids so they spoil them. They end up with fat and unhealthy kids because of it.

I think it really would have helped if I hadn't seen so many commercials in general as a child. I chose most of my Christmas gifts from watching toy commercials aimed at children at Christmastime. Sometimes I think back and wish that I hadn't watched so much television growing up because it did have an effect on my personality. I was a whiny brat because there was always something on TV that I wanted to own.

Answer 4

Well I certainly don't think it can stop it. Because people evolved in situations where food supplies were uncertain, human beings are naturally inclined to eat more than they absolutely need to in order to stave off hunger. Also people eat unnaturally large portions of some foods that were rare in the wild and which people therefore craved especially. Couple this with an increasingly sedentary population (kids who would have been playing outside a few decades ago are now sitting indoors watching TV, and grownups who would have been working fields are now toiling away at desks snacking constantly) and you get a lot of fat people. Probably nothing short of actually changing the nutritional content of the food we eat (via some form of genetics) or tweaking with human DNA will be able to change things.

Answer 5

I don't think anything short of parental responsibility and care will solve this problem for kids. Parents have the most control and influence over their children. It's primarily up to them to ensure their kids are mostly eating nutritional foods and getting a good amount of exercise. Of course when the parents are obese themselves and hang around the house eating sweets and a bag of chips sticking out of their pockets it gets a little tricky when they try to enforce healthy habits. Sorry if I sound like a b!tch but I've never seen an obese child that had thin & health conscious parents.

Answer 6

Maybe, like they have the McDonald's ads were the kids are like, "I play soccer, and then I go to McDonald's for lunch" It's great that there saying kids should work out, but eating stuff from fast foods places were the food is about 2000 calories isn't. They just totally ruined the reason they exercised to begin with

Answer 7

No. i never took any notice of tv ads when i was a kid! This is just another hair brained scheme from the government which sounds like a good idea but won't have any effect at all. They really are clutching at straws now

Answer 8

right here in New Zealand we are putting an actual ban on quickly nutrition/junk nutrition merchandising on television throughout the time of hours wherein toddlers are particularly in all hazard to be gazing television, eg. after college or in the mornings on weekends. this might substitute into effective, in spite of the reality that slightly, through fact media performs a huge section in peoples' lives. If toddlers are continuously uncovered to classified ads showing human beings eating chips, lollies, comfortable beverages, etc. they think of that it fairly is completely ok. What they do no longer understand is the certainty, which you would be waiting to ultimately substitute into obese, diabetic and alter into obese, etc. and be stricken by those outcomes in later existence. So i might say "No", it might no longer be allowed that quickly or junk nutrition classified ads are on television through fact the media impacts peoples' lives in this manner of enormous way. And worse, in the event that they positioned the classified ads on the ideal time that they comprehend their objective industry is gazing....properly all of us comprehend what is going to maximum in all hazard take place. reliable good fortune including your examination!

Answer 9

No, I don't think so - I know there are exceptions, but in my experience obese children tend to have obese parents - it's the family's diet and lifestyle which cause the problem in many cases.

Answer 10

i do beleive it will help. Out of Sight Out of Mind.

its also maybe on a larger part the responsibility of the parrents to ensure their kids eat healthy. Unfortunately most children with obecity, have either 1 or 2 obece Parrents.