Will banning food ads cure fat kids?

[purplepoppy]

On October 1st 2025 it will be illegal to advertise junk food on British TV before 9 pm. This policy was started by the last right wing government and is being continued by the current left wing one. The delay is to allow the industry time to adjust.

The government claims it will help protect children from being exposed to advertising of less healthy food and drinks, which evidence shows influences their dietary preferences from a young age.

But do you think it's going to make any difference? I don't because kids don't buy food, their parents do and bad parents are still going to feed their kids crap.

[WindAtMyBack]

Yes, but then you have the problem of defining junk food.

If the government can regulate and approve drugs for medical use, they should be able to regulate and approve what goes into the food. If they can regulate how much mercury, lead, or pesticide residue goes into food, they should be able to regulate how much corn syrup, trans fat, or other toxic ingredients go in food. If they can regulate tobacco and alcohol, they should be able to regulate the garbage that goes into food.

I also think it should be illegal for parents to allow their kids to get fat without a medial reason for it.

[Levin]

Please stop calling the last government right wing simply because they have 'conservative' in their name.

The party of mass immigration. 700k net per year in the last 3 years.

A ballooning benefits system.

Vast public indebtedness and proliferation of the state.

Nanny state, wokery bullshit. Yada yada.

We had a left wing government. And an even more left wing government, now.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

You're new in EU maybe?

[Justneedtokno]

Definitely not unless you’re homeschooling them and they’ll never be introduced to TV social media or your filtering them forever like they don’t play with the outside world that’s weird. You’re on the outskirts for real.


As a future parent, I wish to become just introduce it to them whatever product it is slowly an introduced boundaries and proper nutrition hell even the pyramid has changed now

[Rosexøxø]

I mean, remember back in the day when cigarettes were advertised and next thing you know not only were Americans over spending and in debt and all but nearly everybody was smoking 🤷‍♀️

Advertising…

have to be responsible. And so should people with their money. 👍

[Rosexøxø]

I think it can help with cravings and unhealthy appetite. They make it look so “healthy” or colorfully vibrant which kids are drawn to a lot at that age. They also are impressionable and see these “people” on the “box” eating things and they learn from that.

Then they want to try it.

Once they’ve built this impulsive want, and if they get ahold of the items. They end up building a bad case of positive reinforcement. It doesn’t have to just be the reward of eating chemicals that stimulate the reward system but it’s the actual reward of getting what they wanted and had been wanting since they seen the commercial!

It’s better if it’s not shoved in their faces constantly. It’s such a bad thing even when kids are younger cause since they’re growing they can have hearty appetites. To get put on to unhealthy foods so young and want those because of these ads, is kinda problematic.

I think reducing or eliminating ads of food at later hours is good. Could reduce midnight snacking or at least reaching for the unhealthy stuff. Will it solve everything? Probably not cause as you mentioned, the parents play a vital role in their children’s diets.

[goaded]

Probably not. Remember the parents who were pushing McDonald's through the bars of the school while Jamie Oliver was trying to give them healthy food?

ProTip for parents: Make sure the comfort food for your children is something cheap and nutritious, even if you're well off. You, or they, may not be in the future. And now I want bubble and squeak!

[jennifer_bloom]

A lot of British laws are about downsizing problems and not totally resolving them. It might reduce junk food purchases over time. You will find out whether it works if the law comes into effect.

[IslaTheWitch]

for fat kids their parents are responsible not TV adds...

parents should be banned from having kids if they can't take care of themselves in the first place...

[onedarkcloud]

Please tell me how the government can tell who is going to be a good parent or not before they have a child SO THEY CAN BE BANNED FROM HAVING CHILDREN?

[IslaTheWitch]

@onedarkcloud if parents are obese, it's like an obvious call for me :D

[onedarkcloud]

A real scientific way to tell who is going to be fat. The way you think is that if parents jump off a bridge suicide the child will do the same it is obvious. Please engage your brain before you put your pen to paper!

[IslaTheWitch]

@onedarkcloud lmao

if parents have bad eating habits, their kids copy them
if parents use foul language, their kids copy them
if parents avoid seeing a doctor, kids will do the same
if parents have mental problems... there is a scientifically proved correlation between parents' mental problems and those their kids are facing

so if parents are obese, their kids also will be, if parents jump off the bridge, it means their kids need help, not only because of their parents' deaths but also because of inherited by copying or by genes problems

[onedarkcloud]

If you believe that I have some bridges to sell you. All of the above are broad based statements and only a small percentage are gene base

[IslaTheWitch]

@onedarkcloud just a hint, read about imprinting in the early years :D

[onedarkcloud]

Dogs cats ducks yes to survive humans are limited. That is why you can have anorexic parents and fat kids or fat parents and skinny kids if imprinting was that strong then fat parent's fat kids skinny parents skinny kids wife beaters produce wife beaters alcoholic produce alcoholics genius produce genius kids dumb parents dumb kids etc, etc, etc.

[IslaTheWitch]

@onedarkcloud so you didn't read. The human mind is complex, and there are plenty of things to learn in the early years. However, the brain is busy developing itself, so imprint works as a learning mechanism. Kids copy without fail any parents' habits, behaviors, or way of making choices. It's how it works. It's why therapy takes so long time to find out the reason for a problem and change things imprinted so long ago.

and yes, anorectic parents can have fat kids. Anorexia is a deeper problem. But still eating problem. An anorectic parent and an obese kid share an eating disorder...

[onedarkcloud]

LOL if it were that easy. Granddaughter's psychologist has put it neatly when asked about her problems and his answer was WE KNOW MORE ABOUT THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN THAN WE DO ABOUT THE HUMAN BRAIN. So basically it is an educated guess & every case is different. What the parent has might not be the thing the child has too many variables

[IslaTheWitch]

@onedarkcloud if something happens 99 times out of 100 we consider it a rule. Everything I described has this rate. I really recommend reading about imprinting and its effects for human kids and adults. You could enjoy it.

[ProbablyClueless]

No, but I'm sure it would help address some of the problems.

I don't think the food ads had any impact on me as a kid. I never really liked the look of the food be advertised. I guess a lot of kids enjoy it though.

The problem here is the existence of all the ultra processed foods, not the fact that someone is advertising them.

[electromagnetic]

Looks like Jamie Oliver is working in the backgrounds yet again. Even if it’s not advertised, they’ll still see it at the shoppes, and they’ll still want him.

[electromagnetic]

Want it *

[MisterWack]

How about we restrict processed foods and strive for more fresh, natural, and nutritious foods?

Perhaps regulate where candies are not placed strategically where children can spot it.

[Anonymous]

Most likely not. Drugs, murder, rape, those are all illegal but it still occurs. What needs to take place is parents need to educate their children on proper eating. That all starts at home w what you prepare for your kids. Will it always work? Not 100%. The reason a lot of kids act the way they do is because of what they learned at home, or didn’t learn at home.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Given aaaaaaaall the medical issues inflicted by bad nutrition management and the sheer medicine budget aftermaths it implies for a state, then... Any move towards nutrition awareness has to be desired I say

[RavVid]

OK it is a public servant bureaucrat idea if both parties support it.

It can't hurt to stop advertising to the little tubby porker kiddies. I don't it will cure especially if they have tubby porker parents.

[mstbooblover]

Considering everyone sees such food ads, not only kids, but also their parents, I guess there will be a positive influence anyway, but I'm not sure this will fix completely the problem. As always education is a key.

[Fireguy17]

no, not at all.
Healthy eating has to start at home.
Cigarette ads and liquor ads have been banned on tv here and nothing has changed much.
People still smoke and drink.

[Aakash_Hangargi]

Whose watching tv most kids are on internet I don't see how it will serve the purpose.

They have to come up with something more substantial than that.

[Passerby2]

why does it need to cure it? they aren't thinking it will. but to Axe a free down you need to be patient

[MrGSpotHer]

Well no I dont they should penalize parents for having obese children it's cruel to do that to kids I think, just like alcohol or drugs to me

[Kathryn1993]

I think that make it worst. Like when they in acted probation. They be junk food dealers in the shadows.

[nawtee_me]

For the late night couch potatoes that allow their kids to be one too.

[robocop666]

no total garbage in food will. The USA health system is a disgrace. Their food is banned in 30 countries.

[Anonymous]

Nope, just a way to justify Sir Keir's genocidal desires

[NathanDavis]

British kids still watch TV?

[purplepoppy]

We've got colour TV these days

[NathanDavis]

over this side of the pond nowadays...

it is commercials on TV, that now offer you some programming in them...

[AviatorTom]

What's the definition of junk food?

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

hehe interesting question, I found something that seems to be the best document on this matter?
www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/21/section/321A
which connects to this document: Nutrient Profiling Technical
Guidance
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/.../dh_123492.pdf

It looks like the same guidance we already have in France aka nutri-score, it's not a perfect system because industry will still try to circumvent the score to minmax profit at the expense of nutrition. But it seems to force agribusiness to consider nutritional qualities of the food presented on the shelves. Because consumers are interested in this score then industry tries to "play" mostly fair.

[purplepoppy]

Things like macdonalds. Anything loaded with fat and sugar with low nutritional value

[AviatorTom]

Sounds like this would turn into some old music videos that got banned in the UK because they showed coca cola cans, which was considered as unauthorized advertising.

[Anonymous]

no, they are addicted to trash

[Anonymous]

No, bur school meal programs would

[Iron_Man]

Yes it will

[noohair]

Wow. No effect.

[Anonymous]

I hope