With the rising of family life standard, people gets used to driving cars instead of walking or riding, working at the offices instead of in the factory, playing games instead of doing sports, which leads to the increasing number of obesity people. The research showed that there are 66 percent of adults are overweight in America, and 32 percent of them are obese (everydayhealth.com). The obesity which could cause heart disease, diabetes, and bone and joint disease has been a serious problem in many country, in order to tackle rising obesity rates, the government should take some measures such as sugar tax, restricted access to unhealthy foods, etc. From my perspective, the restriction of the advertisement is the best approach to reduce the obesity rates.
First of all, almost every child likes watching cartoons or movies on TV, there will come many advertisements which are about toys, drinks, and unhealthy food when a show is over. And we can find that food advertising on TV accounts for 50 percent of the time spent on children’s programs which could attract children to eat those unhealthy foods. We all know that kids have no self-control’s ability, maybe they will follow the ad to buy some food which is not healthy for their body. A survey reveals that children between 8-12 receive more food …show more content…
Ads are not only on the TV, you will hardly miss dozens of food’s advertisements on the street. If we can’t see those ads, maybe we will not tend to buy those unhealthy foods. The National Institute of Health conducted a study based on children’s habits on watching American television, it shows that the restriction of ads would cut the US obesity rate by as much as 18% (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov). This proves the close connection between childhood obesity and fast-food advertisement. I believe that the US obesity rates will be decreased if we really restrict
First of all, almost every child likes watching cartoons or movies on TV, there will come many advertisements which are about toys, drinks, and unhealthy food when a show is over. And we can find that food advertising on TV accounts for 50 percent of the time spent on children’s programs which could attract children to eat those unhealthy foods. We all know that kids have no self-control’s ability, maybe they will follow the ad to buy some food which is not healthy for their body. A survey reveals that children between 8-12 receive more food …show more content…
Ads are not only on the TV, you will hardly miss dozens of food’s advertisements on the street. If we can’t see those ads, maybe we will not tend to buy those unhealthy foods. The National Institute of Health conducted a study based on children’s habits on watching American television, it shows that the restriction of ads would cut the US obesity rate by as much as 18% (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov). This proves the close connection between childhood obesity and fast-food advertisement. I believe that the US obesity rates will be decreased if we really restrict