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| 11/20/2008 |
Study: Banning Fast-Food Ads Could Help With Child Obesity
(Undated) -- Banning ads on certain TV programs for fast food in the U.S. could reduce the number of children in the U.S. who are overweight by up to 18 percent. Those are the findings of a new study published in the "Journal of Law and Economics." The report also concludes eliminating the tax deductibility associated with TV ads would reduce childhood obesity. The authors of the study determined that a ban on fast food TV ads during children's programming would lower the numbers of children aged three to eleven who are overweight by 18 percent. It would also reduce the amount of overweight adolescents between the ages of 12 and 14 by 14 percent. The ban on television ads was found to have a more profound effect on males than females. |
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