Killing Us Sweetly: Conservatives’ role in the growing burden of American obesity

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6. They should be able to resist all multi-million dollar ad campaigns arrayed against them

since childhood. The USA can't be like other countries that have banned junk food advertising from kids' programs. That's socialist. We banned cigarette ads and liquor ads on TV but we did that when we were less afraid of prioritizing public health. When we understood that some government regulations were necessary to help a majority of our people. But that was the era when Republicans supported environmental and other regulations.

We're now in the 30 years of Voluntary Self-Regulation by big business. And diabetes care is a billion dollar business.

We can say that we trust that parents will have enough hours in their days to train their toddlers to resist the hundreds of commercials designed to appeal to young minds.

Food companies are just spending millions on ads everywhere because they want you to eat Twinkies instead of Klinkies. You can just ignore all those ads.

Soda pop companies are just spending millions on putting their products into schools to help education in America.

Kids like breaded deep fried sweetened chicken nuggets. If you want slim children it is up to you parents working two jobs, with just a few hours with your kids, to teach them not to eat it even if you are so poor that you qualify for the school lunch program.