Preventing Childhood Obesity: An Open Letter to the US Congress (free with registration)
According to a this opinion piece, "American children may be the first generation to have shorter life spans than their parents". Dr Dansinger believes the best way to change this is to ban advertisement of food to children.
Personally I'd like to see a ban of advertisements period for children. It only encourages a desire for instant gratification and a 'buy it now' environment. But I'm not sure how you can word laws to cover, say, food advertising aimed at children as opposed to food advertising aimed at adults for foods children would like. It ought to be interesting to see how they go about doing it, if they do.
I think if I had kids, TV would be a very limited thing, with PBS shows and a few selected others, with more emphasis on DVDs and educational programmes. TV would be a treat rather than a way of life. But it's easy to say that until you have a five-year-old begging to watch the same shows her friends in kindergarten do, right?
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