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...food commercials a year, and most are for high-calorie foods," says Ludwig. The American Academy of Pediatrics has concluded that advertising to children under age 8 is inappropriate, Ludwig says. "It's inherently unfair to market directly to young children, who lack the intellectual maturity to distinguish commercials from the substance of a TV show." Nestle argues that it's unfair to parents too. "Why should you have to fight with your child every day about what goes into the lunch box?" she asks. The restaurant and food industry spends about $13 billion a year on ads that teach...
Food marketers are increasingly sidestepping TV. At Nabiscoworld.com for instance, children are enticed to play an Oreo dunking game, join a Chips Ahoy party and race around in a Triscuit 4x4. Harmless fun? It would be if children under age 8 could distinguish between advertising and entertainment. But psychologists say most kids that young are unable to recognize the concept of "persuasive intent" in commercials, and health advocates charge that food companies are exploiting this confusion...
...diet and lifestyle used to keep us healthy, but junk food and irregular hours have made us prone to heart disease. Let us go back to a way of living based on healthy values and abandon maddening pursuits. Otherwise, a time may come when it will be hard to distinguish between home and hospital. Arvind K. Pandey Allahabad, India...
...Until recently, the conventional wisdom on all this was that fans didn't care where their players came from so long as their team won. The delirious supporters of the Sacramento Kings don't distinguish between Vlade Divac and Peja Stojakovic-both Serbs-and other team stars. Even a club's ownership seems to be immaterial to its support...
According to the University of Illinois study, a razor-thin majority of librarians who encountered information requests from law enforcement agents did not cooperate. Similar data has been shown in more local studies. The data is ambiguous, though, since it’s difficult to distinguish how many of these cases fall under the provisions of Section...