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Risks for Youth Who Eat What they Watch

Posted on Apr 20, 2010

This New York Times article discusses how the food industry is not doing a particularly good job at self-regulating their marketing to children and 'acceptable' sugar content varies amongst producers.  A 2007 study by Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation found that  children ages 2 to 7 see an average of 12 televised food ads a day, or 4,400 a year, and children 8 to 12 see an average of 21 a day — more than 7,600 a year.  For teenagers, the numbers are 17 a day, or more than 6,000 a year. Fully half of all ad time on children’s shows is for food, the foundation reported.