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jamieclaire
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Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 11:35 am
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| I am currently studying Media Studies at A level at Winstanley College and have been given a critical research task. I have based my research on children and television and more specifically does television advertising affect childrens health? Critics argue that advrtising for sweets, chocolate and junk food affects chilrens health and cause them to be obese! do you agree or dissagree with this?! |
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Advertising may cause them to want the items, but I think their sitting in front of the TV, and parents not taking proper dietary control, are more responsible for obesity than ads.
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Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 8:39 pm
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 I'm sure for some kids the advertising may have something to do with it, but I am with Debs on the point of kids just sitting in front of a Television, computer or video games, is not doing any good at all either. I think it is important for parents to monitor and make sure that kids are eating the right foods so they have a balanced diet. I am not saying put them on 'diets' like a grown up where they are not eating but a diets where one eats 3 meals a day, with the proper requirements, with pretty of water, no juice or kool aid loaded with sugar. Along with the 3 meals a healthy snack like a apple or pear, nuts no sugar. Exercise is key as well, if its a nice clear day go for a walk, shoot some basketball, swimming. There is plenty that can be done. We need to wage the war on being more heathy. It has to start early, so we can maintain it to carry over into being an adult.
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Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 9:28 pm
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Kids! Bah!
Send 'em up the chimneys, make them earn their keep! 
Yes, I agree that both there seems to be far too much advertising of junk foods/sweets, and that some kids spend far too long sat in front of the box. But...
What about us adults?
Have we also not been brainwashed over the years? I automatically buy chocolate bars and junk stuff when I go to see my grandchildren, I don't even think about it.
All the best,
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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 6:51 am
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Simply watching an advertisement doesn't make anyone obese. Overindulging in the products that are advertised is a different story. 
Still, that is not the fault of the advertiser, now is it? |
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Charlie
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Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 12:19 pm
Post subject: Re: does television advertising affect childrens health?
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| jamieclaire wrote: | | Critics argue that advrtising for sweets, chocolate and junk food affects chilrens health and cause them to be obese! do you agree or dissagree with this?! |
If they banned TV ads I'm sure child obesity levels would decrease.
But here in the UK, obesity levels for all age groups are generally on the rise, and have been for years. Thirty years ago, when I was a child, there were still junk food TV ads targeted at children, but many less fat children.
I think the real problem is the vicious circle of ever increasing pay combined with society's insistence that you are judged by how much money you can show you have spent (on consumer goods).
I think the resultant "must have everything" attitude in adults is being passed on to children. Plus, the lazier lifestyle, as has been mentioned.
People are weak, impressionable fools, in most cases. Yes, even me, on a bad day. 
Back on the subject of TV ads (!), if I bribed some MPs and got a law passed legalising the sale of guns to children and then started TV ads, would adults rush out and buy one because their child demanded it for Xmas?
Surely guns in holsters and cars in garages are much less "dangerous" than an open bag of crisps in the hands of a lazy, hungry person? Yes, I love crisps - and don't believe Gary Lineker is "Satan in a Suit" - and I don't want them banned, but I sometimes resent society for saying I can't play with guns just because many other people wouldn't be safe with them. Other people aren't safe in cars, but I've got one of those and so have they.
Be strong, TV viewers of the world, be strong!
Well you did ask,
Charlie.
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| Larry wrote: | | Send 'em up the chimneys, make them earn their keep! |
Oh the good old days - children up chimneys, servants flogged, colonial wars. If I could remember that far back, I'd be crying nostalgically, too. 
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Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 2:07 pm
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| Larry wrote: | | Send 'em up the chimneys, make them earn their keep! |
Oh the good old days - children up chimneys, servants flogged, colonial wars. If I could remember that far back, I'd be crying nostalgically, too. [/quote]
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Charlie
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Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 3:13 pm
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| Jewel wrote: | | Maybe those good old days could the topic for a great targeted information site niche! |
Well, Larry has got a second copy of SBI!...
It's just monetarising the "niche" that worries me (more than) slightly.
Cheers,
Charlie.
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I would have to say if they banned sit down activities such as TV's and computers ... then obesity may decrease, but it would likely take as much time as it did to increase
It's the TV PC entertains and you need to be stationary to be entertained. I remember playing outside all day and into the evening ... kids just don't do that anymore.
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Larry Chamberlain
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Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 9:46 am
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Charlie wrote
| Quote: | | Surely guns in holsters and cars in garages are much less "dangerous" than an open bag of crisps in the hands of a lazy, hungry person? |
Yep, give me a pack of Pringles and I'll take on an army!
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| Quote: | | I would have to say if they banned sit down activities such as TV's and computers ... then obesity may decrease, but it would likely take as much time as it did to increase |
I think you are right about the time it would take. I've not owned a TV for the last couple of years but my obesity is increasing alarmingly!
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| Quote: | It's the TV PC entertains and you need to be stationary to be entertained. I remember playing outside all day and into the evening ... kids just don't do that anymore.
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They do around here Debs. Except that nowadays it's with the obligatory cans of lager and spliffs on the go, right outside my window.
All the best,
Larry Chamberlain.
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Charlie
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Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 10:35 am
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| jamieclaire wrote: | | I am currently studying Media Studies at A level at Winstanley College and have been given a critical research task. |
Whoever marks this one is going to be in for a "refreshing change".
Cheers,
Charlie.
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