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Will banning all junk food ads end the obesity crisis?
Posted in Advertising, Marketing, Mel Varley, Latest reporters' blogs March 20th, 2008 by Melinda Varley
It’s been just over a year since the ban on all advertising of foods and drink high in fat, sugar and salts came into place – but the debate lives on and we still don’t have any real answers on how to tackle the obesity epidemic.
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Tags Health, Obesity, Junk Food, HFSS foods
Spider-Man can make you fat
Posted in General, Advertising, Marketing, Mel Varley, Latest reporters' blogs April 13th, 2007 by Melinda Varley
This week the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) announced new rules that will ban non-broadcast ads of food and soft drinks that are character or celebrity endorsed – could this be the real answer to ending childhood obesity?
Tags Spider-Man, HFSS, CAP, James Bond, Food, Film, weight
TV is making us fat, angry and bored
Posted in General, Mel Varley, Latest reporters' blogs April 10th, 2007 by Melinda Varley
Since the HFSS foods ad ban came into play last Saturday, it’s been a funny old week for television – it appears we are now blaming all our social and economic problems on the idiot box.
Tags TV, HFSS, BBC, Little Britain, Catherine Tate Show
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