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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
Blame it on the ads, again
Posted in Advertising, Marketing, Mel Varley, Latest reporters' blogs December 10th, 2007 by Melinda Varley
As if it wasn’t enough that we had to blame ads for the UK’s growing obesity crisis, now adland has received fresh claims that they also cause anorexia and alcohol abuse.
Tags Drinking, Binge Drinking, Alcohol, Obesity, Anorexia, Advertising, Parenting
‘Healthy’ chocs – too good to be true?
Posted in General, Marketing November 6th, 2007 by namrita
So, a new contender enters into the already crowded healthy food arena but this time with the golden ticket - healthy chocolate. Can it be true?
Not my last bacon buttie
Posted in General, Mel Varley, Latest reporters' blogs November 1st, 2007 by Melinda Varley
Today’s ‘revelations’ that bacon can cause cancer sent shock waves through Britain and had every news paper, radio station and news channel in over drive – why?
Why we’ll all be fat, sooner or later
Posted in General, Mel Varley, Latest reporters' blogs October 19th, 2007 by Melinda Varley
Everyone has probably seen the array of shock headlines this week that 50 per cent of us will be obese by 2050. Are these shock tactics going to work?
Tags Health, Obesity, Government, Media, Food, Advertising
McDonald’s Super-size what?
Posted in General, Mel Varley, Latest reporters' blogs August 28th, 2007 by Melinda Varley
Today (24 August) marks the 40th anniversary of McDonald’s Big Mac. Is it a cause for celebration in an age of over-aware fussy organic eaters?
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
We won’t give up on McDonald’s
Posted in Advertising, Mel Varley May 29th, 2007 by Melinda Varley
Last week McDonald’s was accused of breaching Ofcom’s junk food advertising rules in a television campaign for its famous Happy Meal.
Tags McDonalds, Food, Advertising, Obesity, Shrek 3, Happy Meal, Fast Food
Unilever is the do gooder of the week
Posted in General, Advertising, Marketing, Mel Varley May 11th, 2007 by Melinda Varley
Following on from Unilever’s decision to ban size zero models in its advertising, the company has now said it will promote only healthier food and drink to children between the ages of six and 11.
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