Can Disney Fight Obesity by Banning Junk Food Ads?

but ultimately it's the parents responsibility.

~~It is NOT the ads NOR the super sized Sodas~ nor anything else that ppl eat~~ When I grew up we ate ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING IN MODERATION~~ and we kids were outside running and playing tag~ baseball~ hide and seek~~johnny rides a pony ~ riding bikes etc~~ we also played board games and played cards which mentally stimulated a person~~we went out in the AM during the summer and came home for lunch ~ then went out again till dinner~ then we took a shower and watched tv for an hour and went to bed~~during school months we were out after homework till the street lights went on and the schedule was the same~~We physically played OUTSIDE as often as possible~ todays kids "Play" on PCs and video games and tv ~ NO exercise @ all ~Hence the obesity of the recent generations~all this "technology" is making our kid mentally and physically lazy~~ OH Yeah and FAT too~~

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Nothing but hypocritical PR. After turning a generation of kids into couch potatoes with insipid programming, is Disney now to be sainted for its pious posturing against junk? And where are the parents who should be tossing those kids out of the living room into the sunshine to get some exercise.

The parents are at work. Ultimately it is parents and the adults used in place of parents who buy and control what kids eat. However, when we made the societal shift from one parent at home and one working to paying people such crap wages that it takes 2 working full time to support a familiy we did NOTHING to care for the kids. Parents are faced with kids who are home unsupervised for 3-4 hours before an adult is in the house. The only way to keep them from sitting in front of the TV eating toxic garbage is to never keep the stuff in the house and never allow the kids money to be able to call it in or walk to a store and get it.

Ultimately, no one really knows. It may not help in the slightest, but it certainly won't hurt. I do remember watching my cartoons when I was little, and seeing advertisements for certain snacks and sweets and soft drinks, and then wanting to give them a try. It worked on me, and I'm sure that the ads that children see while watching their favorite programs still work on some of them, so it may help. Like I said, though, it certainly won't hurt anything. It's worth a shot.

Okay so I think they're sucking up. But still... the number of things that sport Disney characters - like Happy Meals, for instance, and fruit rollups and breakfast cereals and Lunchables - will have to think up a new way to entice sales if they lose Disney on their packaging or as their incentive to buy. They'd do better to rethink their ingredients.

Taking the question purely at face value, the answer is yes. However if you really want to ask will they be effective, the answer is likely no.

it could also help if they put healthy ads too

Never......they're currying favor with the political machine. This is just as stupid as Bloomberg and the big gulp. I swear.....the more dollars you have, the more delusional you become; then you think you are bigger than God. Example: our tiny, salt size asses think we are foing to tell Mother Nature how to act by throwing our money away on green energy. Want to see just how big you really are.......look at the footage of Venus crossing the sun.

lol I never even pay attention to commercials any more. If I see something at the store Ill just buy it. Although this IS a good idea. It just wont help as much as they think.

I really doubt that it will help stop the problem. But it could very well make life easier for parents if their children do not see all the ads.

Fat people and fat kids do not live at Disney.
Combatting obesity whether in older folks or kids is the responsibility of the adult self, parents or guardian at home.
MO, nor Disney, nor Mayor Bloomberg is gonna make fat people skinny. It's their (the people's) choice and responsibility.

The only way obesity trends will change is if people change. Kids need to be outside playing, running around and having fun and getting involved little league or pop warner etc. But between financial issues, one parent families, safety concerns and what have you, kids are staying indoors watching TV, playing games and sitting in front of computers. I read someplace just recently that by 2040, 60% of Americans will be obese (United Stats of American I believe). I'm surprised it was that low.

it's easyer to tell your children to eat healthy if they're not watching a hamburger every 5 minutes on tv

They can try. Will it help? Maybe. It's better than nothing.

It certainly can't hurt

they can at least try, America gets fat while the rest of the world practice jiu-jitsu

I believe McDonald's is still near the All-Star Resorts

Why would they? It is good for the economy. I say, let that fatty eat!

No, they can fight obesity by putting Winnie The Pooh on a treadmill.

As a kid myself back in the 80's, there were lots of junk food commercials that glorified, well, junk. Thus it gave me much of a desire to eat and drink a bunch of junk food later in life. Just something to think about.

Where will all this PC bs end?

Every little bit helps.

It will not cure the problem, but it will help!

but as a private corp, they have the right to do it.

Yes, Disney has a lot of influence on kids and family. Whatever parents buy for their kids they are going to eat too! So if you ban junk food ads for kids; you ban it for adults too. :)

Is there something wrong with telling your fat tub of lard to get off his/her a-- and do their chores?
Waiting for a corporation to program your children... dumb a--es.

It couldn't hurt.

it might help
a lot of kids watch disney and pay attention to what they're saying
they idolize disney, so it's not that hard to influence them through disney

not all kids are going to gt disney products from the store ..thts there parents job to gt them them to stop eating so mch

It's the parents that need to teach their children about proper Nutrition, and to lead by Example

If kids see it on their shows of course they are gonna want it?!?

To a small point, the parents still buy the children bad food; consumption may decrease, however, if the child doesn't ask for the food.

What a farse, Disney will still be selling all that junk food in their amusement parks. Kids will eat whatever their parents bring home from the grocery store, without any regard to commercials. Want to tackle the obesity problem, tell the Government to get the hormones and junk out of our food. Stop poisoning our children.

Unfortunately just tellling the govt. to regulate the food industry won't work. The Republican party is in power, and is likely to continue to be in power and they are dead set against government regulation including the food industry. The hormones are coming from 2 sources. One is from steroids given to meat animals to "beef them up". The other is in pesticides that break down to molecules that act just like estrogen which get into our water, our fruits and our vegetables. We've known this is responcible for early puberty in girls, late puberty in boys, breast growth in boys, prostate cancer, impotence, decreased sperm counts and breast cancer in both sexes since the 1980's. But, any attempts to get this overseen by the Fed. Food and Drug Ad. has been voted down by Republicans and a few slimy Democrats. They get away withh it by claiming that hormones don't qualify as drugs. With no regulating oversight we get poisoned and there is nothing we can do about it as long as we hand power to those who demand an end to govt. regulation. I learned this during my career in pathology from 1979 - 1998. None of it's new.

This is a matter of what has been approved by the FDA. These approvals go back into the 60's. These chemicals are APPROVED. It's not a matter of regulating something that our government has approved. This is a government problem that applies to all parties. Unless you would like to show me where democrats have tried to have the approval for these additives removed, you are playing politics with an issue that incompasses both parties.

People are going to eat and drink what they want government and corporations should not (and should not think they need to) police people's choices. On the flip side people should not try to sue should -their- choices make them a land whale sized person. It seems a little personal responsibility is too much to ask for these days.

Don't you just love how parents blame others for doing their job for them?

Nice try, it might help since they are so big and popular.