That's a lot of frooty pebbles.My next target would be commercials on children's shows. That is where the first and, to me, the most dangerous assault on the attention span takes place. It is also where kids are given a jump start on the road to obesity obesity, condition resulting from excessive storage of fat in the body. Obesity has been defined as a weight more than 20% above what is considered normal according to standard age, height, and weight tables, or by a complex formula known as the body mass index. . According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. columnist Michael Fumento Michael Fumento is an American author, photojournalist and attorney who writes about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, science and health issues. He has travelled to Al Anbar in Western Iraq on three occasions and to Zabul Province[1] , author of The Fat of the Land and not a man given to attacking corporate misdeeds, kids watch an average of 40,000 commercials a year, roughly half of which are food ads. And 90 percent of those are for junk food junk food n. Any of various prepackaged snack foods high in calories but low in nutritional value. junk food . Since Americans now fret about fat as never before, a prohibition of junk food ads may just be an idea whose time has come. |
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