Batada, Seitz, Wootan, Story. “Nine out of 10 Food Advertisements Shown During Saturday
Morning Children’s Television Programming Are for Foods High in Fat, Sodium, or
Added Sugars, or Low in Nutrients.” Journal of the American Dietetic Association 108.4 (2008): 673-678. Print.
The authors of this article hypothesized that more than half of foods marketed to children would be for cereals, restaurants, and snack foods, and that most foods would be high in fat, sugars or low in nutrients. The article cites previous studies that found half of all children’s advertisements are for food, and the majority are low in nutritional value. Many hours of children’s television programs were analyzed on the basis of whether they appealed to movies, costumed …show more content…
They prove that there has not been a significant improvement in the nutritional quality of food advertised to children because the self-implemented standards are permitted to remain ineffective. The authors prove that the lack of success in this area warrants other policy actions. They develop their thesis by performing and analyzing their experiment and ultimately confirming the hypothesis that industry self-regulation has achieved little improvement in the nutritional quality of foods advertised to children. I plan to use this article to support my claim that the media, particularly television commercials, has an immense effect on what children choose to eat. I will also use this source to demonstrate why regulations in children’s food advertising should be mandated by the government in order to promote a healthy lifestyle and stop the child obesity epidemic. This article will support the idea that the American media is to blame for childhood …show more content…
This piece studies the impact of the Coordinated School Health Programs in northern Manhattan. The school system sent out monthly newsletters about healthy habits and offered nutritional workshops and cooking classes. The school set up a bulletin board focussing on healthy habits that was visible to parents and children, keeping nutrition and healthy living at the front of the viewer’s minds. This article reinforces the idea that parents have a massive impact on what their children eat, and if they become obese. I will use this article to argue that in order to change the tides of childhood obesity, schools must not only target children, but parents. Parents must be educated on these important issues, so that they can influence their children to make healthy choices. Parents must lead by
Morning Children’s Television Programming Are for Foods High in Fat, Sodium, or
Added Sugars, or Low in Nutrients.” Journal of the American Dietetic Association 108.4 (2008): 673-678. Print.
The authors of this article hypothesized that more than half of foods marketed to children would be for cereals, restaurants, and snack foods, and that most foods would be high in fat, sugars or low in nutrients. The article cites previous studies that found half of all children’s advertisements are for food, and the majority are low in nutritional value. Many hours of children’s television programs were analyzed on the basis of whether they appealed to movies, costumed …show more content…
They prove that there has not been a significant improvement in the nutritional quality of food advertised to children because the self-implemented standards are permitted to remain ineffective. The authors prove that the lack of success in this area warrants other policy actions. They develop their thesis by performing and analyzing their experiment and ultimately confirming the hypothesis that industry self-regulation has achieved little improvement in the nutritional quality of foods advertised to children. I plan to use this article to support my claim that the media, particularly television commercials, has an immense effect on what children choose to eat. I will also use this source to demonstrate why regulations in children’s food advertising should be mandated by the government in order to promote a healthy lifestyle and stop the child obesity epidemic. This article will support the idea that the American media is to blame for childhood …show more content…
This piece studies the impact of the Coordinated School Health Programs in northern Manhattan. The school system sent out monthly newsletters about healthy habits and offered nutritional workshops and cooking classes. The school set up a bulletin board focussing on healthy habits that was visible to parents and children, keeping nutrition and healthy living at the front of the viewer’s minds. This article reinforces the idea that parents have a massive impact on what their children eat, and if they become obese. I will use this article to argue that in order to change the tides of childhood obesity, schools must not only target children, but parents. Parents must be educated on these important issues, so that they can influence their children to make healthy choices. Parents must lead by