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The Factors which Contribute to the Occurrence of Obesity in Children - Monash College

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The Factors which Contribute to the Occurrence of Obesity in Children - Monash College

   

Monash College

   Added on 2020-02-18

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1ADVERTISEMENTS ON JUNK FOODIntroduction:Australia is one of the most developed nations which are facing huge concern in the issueof childhood obesity in the world. Researchers are of the opinion, that out of the different factorswhich contribute to the occurrence of obesity in children, excessive advertisement shown on themedia makes the children more vulnerable to develop wrong food preferences (Lobstein et al.2015). Data suggests that about 41% of the Australian children daily food intake is made up ofdiscretionary foods. Therefore it is extremely important to conduct a social analysis to gathermore information on the topic so that the correct governing bodies can be approached to dealwith the matter successfully and helping the children to develop a better future.The tow questions which will help us to put more light on the discussion are:Question 1: What is the impact of junk food advertisement on childhood obesity?Question 2: What are the health-related risks on a long-run for those children who consume junkfood?Question 1: What is the impact of junk food advertisement on childhood obesity?Present statistics state that two third of children residing in the nation of Australia are overweightand one third of them are found to be obese. About twenty years ago, this was not the scenario asabout ten percent of the children were obese (Tripicchio et al. 2016). Besides, the present day useof gazettes by the children in the tender age within the houses being one of the important factorsfor contribution of obesity, the advertisement of junk food also plays a crucial role. Australianshave been the greatest producers of junk food advertisements (Wang, Liaukonyte and Kaiser,2015). They have the greatest amount of junk food ads pr hour of television in comparison to nayother countries of the world which also includes America and United Kingdom. It has been
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2ADVERTISEMENTS ON JUNK FOODresearched that 30% of all the ads in the children’s viewing times are dedicated to advertisementsof the food and drinks which mostly belong to junk food categories like burgers, chips, softdrinks as well as sweets which are high in fat, sugar (Boyland and Halford 2013).The food industry every year spends billions of money every year to market different products toyounger people. This kind of marketing which are aimed at children at an early age has a hugeimpact on their food choices, eating habits as well as different presences for food (Boyland et al.2015). This is one of the major concerns in the present generations as majority of the foodproducts are high in calories, fat, sugar and sodium. Researchers have positive as well as strongassociations between the increase in the advertising of the different non-nutritious foods andgrowing rtes of childhood obesity.
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3ADVERTISEMENTS ON JUNK FOODSource: Parliament of Australia, 2009Every day, it is found that children starting from age 2 to 17 watch about 12 to 21 televisioncommercials for different food products. Often it is also seen that many production companiespromote their sugary products with the help of favourite cartoon characters of children as greatsource of whole grains which influence the young minds very easily (Newman, Howlett andBurton 2014). Even the advertisement with fake information are not understood by the normalparents as all do not have enough health literacy to gain idea about the nutrient content of every
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