Junk Food

Advertising laws still too soft on junk foods

RULES DESIGNED to clamp down on online advertising  junk food to children have been slammed.                 Two years on from extending the non-broadcast advertising rules to cover websites and social media, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is failing children. Food companies also continue to exploit loopholes and advertise [...]

‘The Obesity Games’

JUNK FOOD brands should be excluded from sponsoring sporting events, according to the Children’s Food Campaign.                       London 2012 sponsors attacked in new report   In a hard-hitting new report, the campaigning group claims that the power of corporate sponsors like McDonald’s and Coca-Cola has [...]