Wait there’s more and more
considerable concerns have been
and more. Fast food chains also
raised about obesity by health
have an insidious plan for your
experts. The connection between
children as well. Spending more food advertising and children’s
than 3 billion
eating habits
“By the time they’re five,
dollars a year
has been well
children have seen an average
on advertising,
documented: in
of more than 4,000 food
much of it
2005 a study by
commercials annually.” UCLA
is aimed at
the Center of
World Science, 2010
children. There
Science in the
is a reason
Public Interest
why your child
noted that 9
almost has a
out of 10 food
cardiac arrest
advertisement
every time
shown during
you past by a
Saturday morning
McDonalds.
cartoons were
As author
for foods of poor
Eric Schlosser
nutritional value.
explains in
his book Fast
Food Nation,
“America’s fast food culture
has become indistinguishable
from popular culture of its
children.” The result of all this
aggressive marketing of fast
food, soft drinks and candy to
children is a population where