Does junk food advertising contribute to obesity problems?
• Children are swayed easily by advertisements to consume junk food. Most children if they are convinced by an advertisement will want to get the product, in this case, junk food. Eating junk food causes obesity and television advertising during children’s programs will just convince innocent children that junk food is good. Stopping these advertisements will help obesity and lower children’s intake of unhealthy foods. • Not only does advertising cause obesity, but so too does TV watching. It is proven that both watching TV and junk food advertising leads to obesity and if a child is watching television in the first place, watching junk food advertisements will not help the world’s obestity problem.
