How Many Junk Food Ads Do Your Children Watch on TV?

re: How Many Junk Food Ads Do Your Children Watch on TV?

davidBZ — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:46:47 GMT

I know this is an old post, but I found a relevant article pertaining to it:

80% of Nickelodeon's food ads are for junk food.

Not surprising, but very telling.

re: How Many Junk Food Ads Do Your Children Watch on TV?

mmc88121 — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:27:42 GMT

While I agree that we need to get the Television out of the home. I have not been able to home school my daughter and sometimes her assignments including watching the television. Needless to say we watch it with her and discuss what she is watching and how it applies to our lives. But food or drug commercials are the 2 most common advertisments that I see on the television.

Mary

re: How Many Junk Food Ads Do Your Children Watch on TV?

Russ Bianchi — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:51:53 GMT

Parents should not allow children to watch TV...KILL YOUR TV, CUT THE CORD...read books, go to the library, exercise, play sports, walk, take music lesson, anything wholesome (which the vast majority or television watching is NOT)...

Improve your knowledge and that of your children; there is virtually little on television programming these days, short of perhaps Sesame Street or Mr. Rogers reruns, that is of any benefit to any child's real development, growth and long term health.

re: How Many Junk Food Ads Do Your Children Watch on TV?

Josh Rubin — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:18:40 GMT

This is what Richard Dawkinds coined as a meme in the 70's: "A meme, he said, propagates itself as a unit of cultural evolution and diffusion — analogous in many ways to the behavior of the gene."

As we evolve, one should be developing what I call one's "I." This is a stronger foundation and a sense of not only who you are, what you want, etc, but YOUR OWN (not parents, society's or your family's religion) values and belief systems. The stronger your "I", the less likely memes ,or what I call weeds, are able to get into your head and grow.

If parents would take the time to focus on their true intenstions of life and children were educated more on making decisions for themselves, not being told what is right or wrong according to the family and society, I feel the less chance these ad have of getting in a childs head.

TV, among other things is a great way emotional to be "aloof" to oneself. When you have a stong sense of self, you will only choose things that will facilitate, not inhibit your journey. If parents took the time to be present with their family, I feel children would not want to watch TV to be "aloof" towards the family AND the chances of them making facilitative decisions towards life would be more likely.

Do you see spiritual leaders, buddists, people livinig what they preach eating these things and taking all the Rx meds that are out there?? No, because the closer you are to self internally, the more you realize what is facilitative and what is inhibitive.

re: How Many Junk Food Ads Do Your Children Watch on TV?

LM36 — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:16:29 GMT

My children watch almost no TV ads, let me explain why. First of all, we have TiVo which allows us full control over what they watch. We fast forward through all of the commercials. The programs that my children prefer are mainly on Noggin or PBS Kids which have little or no commercials. By the way, is this just a coincidence or are my children healthier than the average American child? My children have never taken antibiotics (ages 5 & 6) and they have never had ear infections. I control their diet by purchasing only foods that I know are healthy for them. If they happen to ask for an unhealthy food then I explain to them why I won't purchase those products. Parents who do not train their children at a young age to choose healthy foods are doing them a disservice. This generation of parents seem to have a hard time saying "No" to their children which is why obesity is rampant in the 0-5 age group.