newsReporterJoined: 24 Mar 2005
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Tue Aug 16, 2005 7:48 pm Reply with quote
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'.
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cloningOkJoined: 25 Jul 2004
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Sat Sep 10, 2005 9:53 pm Reply with quote
TV characters can be a problem, but TV commercials are much worse, and they need to be regulated.
