Sentences with phrase «from junk food advertising»

Caroline Cerny, Obesity Health Alliance Lead, said: «The rules to protect children from junk food advertising on TV are ten years old.

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Half of the calories consumed in America come from «junk» — well - advertised, processed «foods» that harm our bodies and provide little or no nutritional value.

But the campaign to dampen appetites for fat, sugar and salt, particularly among children, drew a limp response from the Australian Communications and Media Authority on junk - food television advertising.

Sustain has welcomed commitments from shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth that a future Labour Government would introduce legal standards for hospital food, extend the sugary drinks tax and ban junk food advertising during family TV, for the benefit of the nation's health.

Just think about it: if you were trying to balance a very tight budget in an operation which lives or dies based on how well students accept your food, and if many (sometimes, the vast majority) of those students came from homes in which nutritionally balanced, home cooked meals are far from the norm, and if the food industry was bombarding those kids with almost $ 2 billion a year in advertising promoting junk food and fast food, and if you had no money of your own for nutrition education to even begin to counter those messages, and if some of those kids also had the option of going off campus to a 7 - 11 or grabbing a donut and chips from a PTA fundraising table set up down the hall, wouldn't you, too, be at least a tiny bit tempted to ramp up the white flour pasta, pizza and fries and ditch the tasteless, low - sodium green beans?

So in this case, I'm giving Disney high marks for making significant strides to protect our children from the worst junk food advertising out there.

Nestle: Well, we will do it in the way these changes always take place — you do it through education of the public; you create demands for different kinds of foods; you teach parents to go into schools and look at what their kids are eating and then do something about it; you change policy so that it becomes more difficult for food companies to advertise to children; you stop them from marketing junk food to kids using cartoon characters.