I don't think that's something
we have been doing.
They have been trying to make kids eat and drink all kinds of unhealthy ****, and it appears to be working so well that
they are getting rich by killing them. (Or making them kill themselves, if you will.)
Fast-food advertising has replaced the old
Come-to-Marlboro-County ads:
Quote:
Jennifer Harris, director of marketing initiatives at the University of Connecticut’s Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity, and her team constantly publish papers on the correlation between fast food marketing and childhood obesity. Like Gearhardt, she thinks teenagers are especially vulnerable to junk food ads, more so than children 12 and under.
“Teenagers don’t have well-developed cognitive control mechanisms,” Harris told HuffPost. “Their frontal cortex doesn’t develop until the early 20s, so they’re very impulsive.”
How Fast Food Advertisements Get Under Your Skin, Whether You Realize It Or Not (HuffPost, March 3, 2019)
I was a teenager in the late '60s and early '70s, but in spite of hardly ever having a coke, their cinema advertising (in particular the
sound of the bottle being opened and the
fizz when it's poured into the glass) makes me positively
crave one (but not enough to get me out of my seat
). When it has that effect on me, I'm not surprised by the effect that it has on teenage brains.
ETA: We all know the photos they put on packets of cigarettes nowadays. I have some suggestions for the photos that should be placed on boxes of junk food:
Death by Morbid Obesity