According to "Junk food ads face online ban in UK" (2016), advertising junk food could soon
be banned from children's content streamed online, according to the UK's
advertising watchdog. A ban could affect the content on services such as
Youtube and ITV Hub.
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My Yes/No question is:
Should junk food adverts
be banned during children's TV programs?
My answer is:
Yes, it should. Since junk food is high in sugar, fat, sodium and calories, but low in nutrients. It cause many health problems. For example, tooth decay, which occurs when the enamel that covers your teeth break down by eating too much sugar. Weight gain, because it contains lots of calories. Most of a junk food adverts are target children. You can sometimes see that there is a toy giveaway with the food. Banning junk food ads can help children to have less interest in those junk food but parents' care are also important. They should give a good advice to persuade their child to eat healthily. I don't think that banning the ads would affect junk food's restaurant much because they are now well-known and exist everywhere.
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Yes, it should as junk food lead to obesity. Junk food composed of fats which is a majority especially saturated fats which will lead to other disease like coronary heart disease high blood pressure. This will also cause children to have unbalanced diet since young which result in unhealthy lifestyle when they grow up into adults.
ReplyDeleteHowever, fast food ads should only be banned in young children but not teenagers or adults. Junk food is good for people who are in rush, like me. When I am almost late for the exam, I could just simply by a two dollars mc chicken and eat it while running to school. It is convenient and allows me to satisfy my hunger before exams. Without fast food in this world, I am not bale to survive in such fast-paced society ,especially in Singapore
Yes, it should as junk food lead to obesity. Junk food composed of fats which is a majority especially saturated fats which will lead to other disease like coronary heart disease high blood pressure. This will also cause children to have unbalanced diet since young which result in unhealthy lifestyle when they grow up into adults.
ReplyDeleteHowever, fast food ads should only be banned in young children but not teenagers or adults. Junk food is good for people who are in rush, like me. When I am almost late for the exam, I could just simply by a two dollars mc chicken and eat it while running to school. It is convenient and allows me to satisfy my hunger before exams. Without fast food in this world, I am not bale to survive in such fast-paced society ,especially in Singapore
Yes, it should. Junk food should not serve for children cause lots of poor nutrients like crab, fat, more and more sugar. Those advertisement will attractive and fascinated to child want to consume it. If it is banned on children's TV programs, will reduce craving junk food in their awareness.
ReplyDeleteI recommend all of you watch "Super Size Me" it about the man who use himself in experiment eating Junk food project, he ate McDonald three times per day for one month. The result was a terrible effect to his body and healthy.
How can you ban advertisements for children but not adults? The advertisements either exist or they don't.
ReplyDeleteAnd even if something is unhealthy, as sugar and lots of other things are, is that a good enough reason to ban it, or even to tax it?
ReplyDeleteIs it OK to tax cigarettes because they are unhealthy? They certainly are unhealthy, but taxing them is punishing the lifestyle choices of people who enjoy that sort of thing. Why should some people be making decisions to punish the lifestyles of others?
Jom has written an interesting post about the benefits of exercise on the brain. We know that a sedentary lifestyle is unhealthy, so does it follow that its OK to levy a special tax on people who do not go to a gym? Or to punish with taxes every floor travelled in a lift instead of using stairs? The argument seems to me very similar.
Perhaps to simplify it, unhealthy people should be taxed more than healthy people. Everyone can have an official health check every year, and the more healthy you are, the lower the rate of tax you pay. I expect that boxers and other sports stars will likely like this proposal.
My misunderstanding. You can of course ban the advertisements during children's TV shows. But might that not cause greater harm if the shows fail because they not supported by advertisers? Who, after all, is going to spend money advertising on children's shows if that won't attract paying customers, and there aren't many businesses where children can drive sales by pushing their parents into the stores. For the children I know, advertisements for cars, cosmetics, and the like do not interest, or if they do, those products are not something that children can buy.
DeleteNo, it shouldn't.
ReplyDeleteI think that the more you try to ban something from children, the more they will want to know and want to try it. The better way for me is to let them see and explain about disadvantage of junk food to let them aware that junk foods have a lot of disadvantages.
I think that children can be taught and they will follow you, if you have strong reasons which is strongly enough to let them belief.
The word "ban" remind me about sex issue in Thailand. Nowadays, most adults and media think that sex issue is bad and it should be ban from children. The result is that children want to know more about it and try to find anyway to understand it.
This is the worsen effect for me of trying to ban something from children instead of let them know and clearly explain it to them.
Regardless of evidences from research about this ban, I personally suppose that no ban or ban for junk food ads during kids’ TV programs does not change anything, except the loss of income from such ads for TV station. There are a great number of hidden or non-hidden ads in several kinds of very-easy-to-access media to which children are being exposed.
ReplyDeleteIf Children can perceive correct information regarding food consumption by parents, teachers, and useful media, that would be one of the good ways for them to learn to eat hygienically and properly.
I don't think so. As it makes no difference for children, children still cannot think of what is good and what is not. They don't even know what is the ads about. So, I think that there is no problem with the ads about junk foods during the children's TV program.
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ReplyDeleteI don't think it's a good way to promote children's health by ban the sweets during kids TV show. Because it's not the only the company can do the campaign for their business. The more you try to push them in difficulty, the more children exposed to the products in other way. One example of the possible alternative marketing is free distribution of tester which is far more effective than commercial ad especially in food industry.
ReplyDeleteThe better way is the dietary education in the curriculum. It might be harder but far more effective rather than ban on ad. Let's take a look on Japanese or French kids in which country they live in the strongest culture of dessert but have very low numbers of obesity.