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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
Worrying yourself thin
Posted in Advertising, Marketing, Mel Varley, Latest reporters' blogs January 23rd, 2008 by Melinda Varley
Children are still being bombarded with television advertisements for junk food, in spite of new rules aimed at tackling the UK’s obesity epidemic, but will we ever stop blaming advertisers?
Tags Junk Food, Advertising, Childhood Obesity, Health, Ofcom
Can McDonald’s break our resolution?
Posted in Advertising, Marketing, Direct Marketing, Mel Varley, Latest reporters' blogs January 3rd, 2008 by Melinda Varley
Out of the top ten most popular New Year resolutions, fitness and dieting are rated number two and three respectively. So why are the fast food companies trying to talk us out of keeping them?
Tags McDonalds, Junk Food, Vouchers, Viral Campaigns, Marketing, Advertising, Health
Our doomed relationship with food
Posted in Advertising, Mel Varley, Latest reporters' blogs July 20th, 2007 by Melinda Varley
While the Food Standards Authority and the government have tried to persuade us to eat healthily by banning junk ads to kids, have they given the adults a food complex?
Finally some common sense
Posted in Advertising, Marketing, Mel Varley, Latest reporters' blogs June 6th, 2007 by Melinda Varley
For months now I have been constantly reporting on the ramifications of the rules on ‘junk foods’, advertising them to children and the food labelling rules…but finally we have a company that has said what I’ve really been thinking.
Tags Food, Advertising, Junk Food, Obesity, Health, Government
The ‘why is my kid fat’ debate
Posted in General, Advertising, Marketing December 11th, 2006 by Melinda Varley
It is a well known fact now that the UK is suffering from an obesity epidemic in both children and adults. Nearly half of all men and one third of women in the UK are currently said to be overweight with 17 per cent of men and 21 per cent of women officially classified as obese.
Tags Obesity, Advertising, Junk food
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