One and a half million children are obese and in 2007, 87% of advertising aimed at children were for products that are too high in fat, sugar or salt. For the Federal Union of Consumers What to choose, only legislation can stop harassment food for children. A year after the publication of its investigation into the role of television advertising in childhood obesity, UFC-Que Choisir shows, study support, food that harassment of children on television continues unabated. commitments sham. By focusing its advertising communication on products clearly unbalanced, the food industry would take part, alongside the canteens faulty and unbalanced ray supermarkets, the alarming rise of childhood obesity…

Mission Nutrition and Food for the UFC. The National Association of Food Industry (Ania) yet is silent on the issue. In addition, obesity is not just communication, it is also a problem of feeding behavior.

Elsewhere in Europe the situation is evolving more quickly, since April 2007 in England, the advertising of certain foods are forbidden during the programs for the youth for less than 12 years. It is therefore possible to require food companies to strict rules and define the good and bad products. The question is whether consumer behavior will follow. tweetcount_url = ‘ = ‘Against Childhood Obesity, a bill limiting the pub’tweetcount_short_url = ‘ = ‘small’tweetcount_via = false;.


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