Do the adverts for fast food restaurants infuriate you? It is like propaganda for the children to be unhealthy?!

I cried the first time my children fought over who got the last piece of cucumber!

Factory food is garbage. The best food comes from one's own soil and toil directly to your table.

http://mydailylunch.blogspot.com/

I've been educating my children since they were born about the difference between real food and junk food. Then I explain to them how companies try to trick your by loading their products with salt, sugar, fake flavours, and so on and why that works so very well. I also, why there are adverts, what they are for, what they want to accomplish, and the techniques they use etc.

The first think people, especially parents, need to understand, is that children absorb what you are saying. They may not have the vocabulary or language skills, but they can understand far more than they can communicate. On top of that, what they absorb, they will think about later, and it will stay with them.

Anyway, I kept at it, and now they are 4 and 6, and they can pretty much identify the junk from the real foods and understand commercials and adverts etc., but of course it's a continual educational lesson as there are a myriad of ways to advertise.

Not really, no.

If you don't want to eat there, don't eat there. If you don't want your children to eat there, don't take them there.


"How do we tell our children that it is not good to eat these things and then on the telly they are made to look like the best thing there is to have?"

Ummm, it's called parenting.

Granted the food is not considered health food. But if eaten just every now and then its really not that bad. And its up to parents to buy food for their children. So marketing children is really not an issue. My kids very rarely eat fast food. The reason I know this is because again, I buy my kids their food.

If you don't like fast food for yourself or your children then here is an idea, Don't buy it!

In the end it is the parent that buys the food for the child. If they do not have to power to say no to a child, then you cannot really blame the fast food companies for making children fat. Kids can't drive themselves to Mcdonalds and order a happy meal.

Yeh pretty much, but parents are lazy/tired/undisciplines and end up buying it.

I watched fast food adverts, but never wanted that crap food- I was never bought fast food til I was able to buy it myself when I was 18. Im 30 now. I wouldn't give in.

Yes! In fact, I'm writing a term paper about food advertising right now. I'm particularly maddened when animal-related companies like the meat dairy or egg industries try to play off how humane they are when this is the reality of it:
http://www.meatvideo.com/

Agree. The problem lies in the parents who buy the junk and eat it too.

They wouldn't be in business if no one bought it.

They don't care, they just want your money. Same with a lot of businesses; not necessarily food ones.