The Negative Influence Of Junk Food Advertising

In 2012, the junk food industry paid $4.6 billion to advertise unhealthy products, and that advertising attracts most of the children and teens, according to Center for Food Policy & Obesity (2013). Meanwhile a numerous number of restaurants and supermarkets are selling junk food, and junk food is advertising by many methods such as the television, radio, and social media. Accordingly, people will start to consume junk food after the advertising especially children. Because children normally watch television, and use social media sometimes. Although junk food is an unhealthy food, it is very appealing to children due to the taste and it is inexpensive. Since kids are consuming junk food regularly, they may possibly be at a higher risk for health. Therefore, junk food should not be advertised to children for two main reasons: junk food causes obesity, and

However, it is nearly no money has spent on healthy food advertising, and billions have paid for junk food advertising. As a result, parents are working so hard to provide healthy food for their children, but it is not enough because junk food is advertised everywhere, such as in television, sporting events, radio, and supermarkets, and junk food businesses consumed $4.2 billion in 2009 marketing through media, according to “Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy” (2012). there is some children do not recognize the health consequences of their ingesting behaviors, while some schools are supplying junk food at lunchtime to children, they consume whatever junk food they watched from the advertising. Therefore, parents need support by discontinue advertising junk food for kids, since providing healthy food for their kids is not enough and out of their