The Effect of Unhealthy Food Advertising on Children

In this blog, I am going to explore the topic of unhealthy food advertisements and their relation to childhood obesity. There are so many unhealthy ads and very few healthy ads, and many of these ads are actually targeted to children. The obesity rates in the United States are growing, and unhealthy food advertisements appear almost everywhere you turn; on television, the internet, radio, or print media. How much of the growing obesity rates are due to advertisments? Can we tell? How do advertisments target children? These a just a few of the types of questions I will be looking into further and trying to answer all that I can.