The main criticisms of the government's measures have largely centred on the voluntary action by the food and drink industry and the absence of any restrictions
on junk food marketing and advertising.
While McDonald's pretends to be «giving back,» it continues to lobby against policies to
reduce junk food marketing to children and refuses to pay its workers a living wage, despite growing protests.
As the government looks to update its child obesity strategy, the Children's Food Campaign and Sustain have joined forces with Jamie Oliver, in a new #AdEnough campaign to
curb junk food marketing, featuring selfies with covered eyes - the only effective ad - blocker children currently have.
Oh yes, it was another IOM report, this one focused entirely on food marketing to children, from 2005, which reviewed the science showing a clear connection
between junk food marketing and children's dietary habits.
This is certainly important, as advocates have for years been sounding the alarm about the intractable problem
of junk food marketing to children and its connection to poor health.
Better food and food teaching for children in schools, and protection of children
from junk food marketing are the aims of Sustain's high - profile Children's Food Campaign.
However, that is a lot easier said than done when children today are surrounded by friends eating colorful non-food items that look more like toys than food and being shown commercials
for junk food marketed to them by their favorite cartoon character.
In addition, the MomsRising members have helped get every child in elementary, middle school and high school access to healthier foods in school, as well as
get junk food marketing out of the schools so that kids have healthier food options while they are in school.
There's clearly a market of parents out there looking for companies to support them in their efforts to feed their children well — and a growing resentment among these consumers toward companies that prey on their children with
aggressive junk food marketing.
Last week Michelle Obama gathered 100 food industry representatives, academic experts and public health advocates for a «summit» at the White House to
discuss junk food marketing to children.
Now is the time to tell USDA you support its proposed guidelines for nutrition education, physical activity, and
junk food marketing in schools:
I have personally come to the conclusion that what we need is a hypnosis event of the masses to help avert our minds from this constant barrage of junk food sales (lol)-- and, of course I am being facetious and tongue in cheek, but honestly... How does a person circumvent the constant sales and availability of this highly -
processed junk food marketing that has invaded so many aspects of our daily lives and is so heavily represented in fundraising?
The following is from Margo Wootan, director of nutrition policy with Center for Science in the Public Interest, which has been leading the fight for decades to
stop junk food marketing to children.
«It's been 10 years since the first, and only,
TV junk food marketing regulations were introduced by Ofcom and they're seriously out of date.
I plan to continue to be a supporter of Integrative Medicine and aspire to help make some changes
around junk food marketing to children on Capitol Hill.
The UK government is to reform its Childhood Obesity Plan raising the prospect of tighter controls
on junk food marketing.
And to be honest, parents are up against a lot of competition —
between junk food marketing and the preponderance of crazy unhealthy food flooding the landscape in combination with the media and cultural obsession with thinness, it's amazing more of us don't just completely short - circuit.
The government's measures, centred on the sugar tax announced by George Osborne in March, rely on voluntary action by the food and drink industry and are shorn of any restrictions on
junk food marketing and advertising.
I would like to see multiple interventions, ranging from more a much greater focus on food education in schools; a ban on
junk food marketing to kids; soda taxes and limits on the size of soda and other sugar - sweetened beverages being sold.
We need to be more aggressive in putting a stop to
junk food marketing to kids.
The following is a summary of my talk on the recent failed attempt by the federal government to rein in
junk food marketing to children, and why it's time to set a new and much bolder course to fix this problem.
Never mind all
that junk food marketing to kids, which Let's Move ignores.