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  1. A ban on TV junk food advertising before 9pm comes into force in the UK.

    The ban on junk food advertising on TV before 9pm and a total ban online will be enforced by the Advertising Standards Authority.

    The watchdog will monitor for high fat and sugar products as part of wider effort to tackle the childhood obesity crisis.

    mediafaro.org/article/20260105

    #Junkfood #Advertising #Television #Obesity #Health #Media #Business #Food #ChildhoodObesity #Children #TV #UK

  2. CA schools to ban ultra-processed foods from lunches

    They’re tasty but we all know they’re not good for you “Foods in this category have links with obesity, inflammation, and then also disruption of the gut microbiome,” Scripps Cancer Center Dietitian Alison Meagher says. We’re talking about sugary drinks, package…
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #childhoodobesity #schoollunches #ultraprocessedfood
    diningandcooking.com/2427364/c

  3. SNAP was designed to fight hunger, not fuel sugar addiction. Cheap sugary snacks flood low-income communities, leading to long-term health crises. We need policies that prioritize nutrition over processed junk. #sugaraddiction #childhoodobesity

  4. 🔦SPOTLIGHT
    We're shining a 💡💡💡on the publication of Maria Gültzow et al. They investigated whether the unequal distribution of #childhoodobesity between different
    #socioeconomic positions affects the
    #MentalHealth of young #adolescents
    .
    www.demogr.mpg.de/go/adolescent-health

  5. I'm at #Subway and this woman walks in towing this pink little boy. He's bouncing off the walls and crawling on the floor while they wait in line. She asks for a meatball footlong, and the sandwich artist with face tattoos tells her they are out of meatballs. "They are out of meatballs!" she hollers across the store at the kid who is playing with the soda fountain. "Do you want a regular sandwich without any healthy stuff on it?" she says tiredly. "Yeah!" he says "with bacon!"

    #childhoodObesity