Sentences with phrase «against junk food advertising»

The NSW Cancer Council campaigns against junk food advertising to children because obesity is a risk factor for cancers including bowel, esophegal, pancreas, kidney, post-menopausal breast and endometrial.

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Another argument against the banning of junk food advertising to children claims that assertions about causal influences of food advertising on children's diets and weight are flawed because they do not take into consideration other risk factors.

And there are also many, many things we could be doing to encourage children's acceptance of healthier school meals: imposing meaningful restrictions on children's junk food advertising; requiring food education in schools — not just nutrition education, but offering kids a real understanding of our food system, and overtly inoculating them against the allure of hyper - processed and fast food; teaching all children basic cooking skills; getting more gardens into schools; encouraging restaurants to ditch the standard breaded - and - fried children's menu; imposing taxes on soda (and even junk food); improving food access; and so much more.

Because she's absolutely right that in a very real sense, school food is competing against relentlessly advertised junk food, and it just doesn't stand a chance without a lot of powerful messaging behind it.