Play 60 Advertisement Analysis

Advertising has an impact on the physical health of youth on a daily basis whether it's what to eat, or simply just how to live a healthy life. In a document written by The American Psychological Association, the narrator states that kids on average spend approximately 44.5 hours a week online and research shows a strong link between an increase in advertisements for non-nutritious foods and childhood obesity rates. This shows that the more kids are exposed to ads campaigning unhealthy food, the more likely they are to buy it and suffer from obesity. Furthermore, over the past 25 years the percentage of child obesity has nearly tripled and is currently at 20%. This means that 1/5 kids nationwide are overweight. However other organizations are acknowledging this problem and are using advertising as a way to help fight the battle to stop childhood obesity. One of these organizations is Play 60. Play 60 has encouraged roughly 16 million kids to be more …show more content…
They are also partnered up with the NFL to motivate kids to get 60 minutes of physical activity a day and since Play 60 started they have made 1,300 player visits to schools involved with the Play 60 organization to encourage kids to live a healthy, fit lifestyle. In conclusion Advertising can have multiple impacts on the physical health of youth whether for a positive and negative
Advertising not only has an impact on physical health but your mental health as well, or how you view yourself and others around you. The media shapes the way people view themselves by featuring models in their ads that have an idealistic look and appeals to the public, giving people the false reality that if they buy the product they will look like the people being