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(Childhood Obesity News) Junk Food Commercials Cause Obesity - Oneindia

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Zimmerman found that childhood obesity is directly related to kids’ exposure to advertisements that endorse unhealthy foods. They noted down the types of television programmes viewed by children to examine if different kinds of content exerted different effects on obesity. The UCLA School of Public Health study discovered that commercial viewing was significantly associated with higher Body Mass Index among all kids. Zimmerman insists that the attractive commercials portraying food products like sugary cereals, snacks, fast food and soda pop are made so very attractive that children bound to get magnetically attracted to it, which results in hike in obesity. The researchers concluded that steering children away from commercial television may help reduce childhood obesity, considering food is the most commonly advertised product on children’s television. Read Childhood Obesity

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