It's the Medias fault no it's the government's fault no blame Canada no blame .......

[Nickatilynx]

Bottomline childhood obessity is the parents fault...

[Red]

I think what bothers me more than the ads targetting the kids, is the way the advertisers perpetuate the destruction, the dumbing down and the ghettoizing of the English language. This is what parents should be outraged enough to write letters about. (The current one that really irks me know is Boost cell phones with their slogan of "Where you at?")

If enough people cared about that, it could change. I have personal experience to prove it can be done.
You may remember for years Curad bandages had the slogan of "It wont ouch me." What you may not remember that when that campaign started in 1973 the slogan was "It don't ouch me." I was appalled at that and being the activist/radical I was at 18, I wrote them a letter stating that it was bad enough that kids are graduating school being functionally illiterate and they were adding to it. I also told them that I would boycott their product and that I was sure every schoolteacher in the country would agree with me. I received a very nice letter back stating that they were forwarding my letter to their advertising department. A month later the slogan was changed.

[Robin]

Originally Posted by Nickatilynx

Bottomline childhood obessity is the parents fault...

Yes - but it often goes back generations because today's parents were badly brought up and so on. It's very hard to expect a heavily overweight mother not to feed her kids the way she was fed when she was young.

Living in South Texas I see this problem everywhere - and it's mostly the poorer people who are fattest it seems to me. They are likely the least educated too. In the UK the govt spends a lot on advertising healthy lifestyles. I think they should do that here on Disney and Nickelodeon. Actually Nickelodeon do it themselves - which is excellent.

No, somebody needs to counter the misleading ads of the big fast food companies. You can't do nothing and just say "It's the parent's fault" - that's not fair on their kids!