Comments on: Study: Fast Food Ad Ban Could Curb Obesity

Double-Digit Drops In Overweight Kids Would Occur If Commercials Ceased, Research Suggests

[redbds]

If people are too stupid to realize that and intend to go right on eating or letting their kids eat too much, let them. Let evolution do its job.
Posted by VoidMaster
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Right on. Natural selection.

Posted by xxunknown at 03:18 PM : Nov 20, 2008

Can''t do that. It is counter to the liberal agenda.

[redbds]

hmmmm - banning fast food......someone just stepped over that invisible line. Something of this nature, is unacceptable. We all have the right to do what we want with our bodies, from food and drink to drugs or smoking. This type of comment is an attempt to take away our rights.
Let''''s make sure this gets a rethink and let''''s make sure that it does not happen.

Posted by lvdragonlady at 03:19 PM : Nov 20, 2008

Just one of the many things that the liberals in charge of this country will do for you in the near future. they know that we are all uncapable of knowing what is best for ourselves so they will do the thinking for us. Hold on to your hats. It is going to get very interesting.

[lvdragonlady-2009]

hmmmm - banning fast food......someone just stepped over that invisible line. Something of this nature, is unacceptable. We all have the right to do what we want with our bodies, from food and drink to drugs or smoking. This type of comment is an attempt to take away our rights.
Let''s make sure this gets a rethink and let''s make sure that it does not happen.

[xxunknown]

If people are too stupid to realize that and intend to go right on eating or letting their kids eat too much, let them. Let evolution do its job.
Posted by VoidMaster
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Right on. Natural selection.

[itgranny]

I have wondered for a long time about advertizing leading us into ways we shouldn''t be going. Smoking, eating, credit cards, drinking, pay day loans, buying huge gas hogs... a whole host of things that we really should know better.

And for those that say it''s only affecting weak people need only look at religion to know there''s power behind advertizing. How could a sane person with no input from the outside, read Revelations or even Matthew, Mark or James, and walk away a christian? It''s the suggesion. It''s everyone around them. It''s the advertizing.

People are sheep and will buy into what ever they are fed. It''s about time we start realizing this and start pushing things that are good for us and society as a whole.

[credibility2]

Another problem is the lack of anyone cooking meals at home for their kids, or least having healthy nutritional food available for them. Going out for fast food is too much of a convenience for both parent and kid. It doesn''t have to happen. It''s called being disciplined and responsible.

[displeased]

Putting the higher cost of veggies aside, the problem is lack of nutritional education. You take somebody who''s hungry and show them a picture of a salad and a picture of a burger. They''re going to choose the burger because it is more satisfying.

Now take a nutritionally educated person, such as myself, and show me a picture of a salad and a picture of a burger, I''ll choose the burger. Only because I''ve eaten enough salads throughout the week and exercised considerably that I can afford to reward myself with the occasional burger.

Most people reward themselves with every meal, regardless of their nutritional and exercise achievements.

[honestabe8]

Is it just my imagination, or did we start getting fatter when we stopped being a group of people who played sports to one that watched sports?

[seer57]

Kaliwind , you are so right... Plus people can''t afford the better foods so they they get the sugary fats and sweets because they are cheaper and thus we have plump juicy kids.

[kaliwind]

This is another really stupid study. Kids are obese today because they are doing nothing but playing video games instead of playing in the yard and playing at school recess. When I was a kid we ate a lot but were skinny because we ran it off in outdoor activities. Now the politically correct don''t want children playing outdoor games because they might get hurt and games are competitive. Instead they come up with stupid studies like this one. Get those kids moving! Exercise is good for you. And I agree with the comments about not eating balanced meals at home because kids today are involved in a zillion different activities.

[seer57]

NOOOO .. We will probably find out that broccoli can be used as a bio fuel and then the price would soar and every one will lease there land to the government and no one would want to sell it for food... Lets use our brains a minute.Maybe the FDA won''t try to curve the tons of unhealthy fast foods because that might make people healthier which would cause more doctors to precribe less medications and since drug companies lobby for the FDA which has a lot of doctors for members..... Well we will see where it goes.

[displeased]

Maybe if we had more broccoli commercials it would trick us into eating healthier.
Posted by hotwitch

That won''t work. Broccoli doesn''t appear appealing or satisfying unless it''s submerged in a giant bowl of cheese. Then it would sell...

[hotwitch]

Maybe if we had more broccoli commercials it would trick us into eating healthier.

[displeased]

We should ban TVs. Then ALL problems are solved.

[dkhorse1]

It''s funny how kids and adults are too lazy to get up move and perform any kind of physical activity for their health, but after watching a fast food commercial they''ll move to get something fattening to eat.

We%u2019re looking the commercials all wrong, they are actually the only source of motivation fat kids get to move.

[dagrandma]

dogsoul: I think the point middleman6 was trying to make was that without the ads for prescription medication, we won''t be convinced we have "restless leg syndrome" or some other such hogwash. I''d never heard of this syndrome until an ad came out for it''s cure. And I''m sure sales skyrocketed after the ad came out because, while there actually may be people with RLS, they probably are a fraction of the people who think they have it.

[ybotheratall]

Every time I see an ad on TV for those horrifying burgers and deep fried chicken garbage I want to change the channel, not go buy something to eat there. YUCK! That stuff is garbage. They are good for a salad and a bottle of water, that''s about it and not even that. My kids wouldn''t eat that junk if you gave it to them. I do something called "cooking". Fresh, healthy meals with vegetables and healthy meats. Try it sometime!

[tigerdaemon]

If people would stop scheduling their and their childrens'' lives to the nth degree, and stay home in the evening to cook a decent, wholesome meal instead of running the kids through the local fast food establishment for dinner, maybe childhood obesity wouldn''t be such an issue. Having everyone sit down at the dinner table for a meal has enormous benefits for one''s children - not only do they get decent food to eat, but they have the opportunity to interact with their parents, something that has been shown through research to help deflect may of the problems kids have (drug use, alcoholism, promiscuity, etc.). I cooked (and continue to) every evening when my kids were growing up, even though I was a working mom with my own stresses. I''ve reaped the rewards of that - both my kids are responsible, hard-working college students, with no drug or alcohol problems, and no unwanted pregnancies.

The other issue is television and computers. Turn the *** thing off and do something with your kids that involves getting up and moving around. Obesity began to be a problem when we stopped making our kids go outside and play. Be the adult, and be in charge.

Like anything else, eating fast food is a choice. Banning commercials isn''t going to make any difference one way or another.

[skinnyminny2]

I agree with getoffmine...let ''em get fat. it''s their problem. Why should anyone else care?

[flreason]

Banning ads really would be overreaching, but I do think that perhaps there should be some limits on fast food advertising associated with children''s programming. Having said that, it is the parents'' responsibility to serve balanced meals, and to say no when their kids demand products (including food) huckstered on kids'' shows.