TV heroes need a health make-over, even they influence chil

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newsReporter Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 7:48 pm	Post subject: TV heroes need a health make-over, even they influence chil Even as childhood obesity has doubled since the early 1990s among two to four-year-olds and trebled for six to 15-year-olds, a recent parental survey conducted by the Somerfield chain of food stores found children increasingly owe their harmful food habits to TV characters particularly to comic heroes like doughnut loving Homer of 'The Simpsons'. Read more... Source: The Earth Times Online Newspaper - Health News The Earth Times online newspaper, serving the planet with news that matters on the drug industry, health, fitness and medicine


cloningOk Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 9:53 pm	Post subject: TV characters can be a problem, but TV commercials are much worse, and they need to be regulated.

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