Where’s the evidence linking junk food ads to obesity?
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Where’s the evidence linking junk food ads to obesity?
Description
September 15, 2017
With parliament set to return to work Monday, a Conservative senator hopes Liberal legislators will quickly sign-off on a new law she's pushing -- to ban food ads aimed at kids. But as Chief Political Correspondent David Akin reports, the senator is getting pushback from the food industry which says there's no evidence that cutting ads makes kids healthier.
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Where’s the evidence linking junk food ads to obesity?02:07 | September 15, 2017 -
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Where’s the evidence linking junk food ads to obesity?02:07 | September 15, 2017
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Where’s the evidence linking junk food ads to obesity?
Description
September 15, 2017
With parliament set to return to work Monday, a Conservative senator hopes Liberal legislators will quickly sign-off on a new law she's pushing -- to ban food ads aimed at kids. But as Chief Political Correspondent David Akin reports, the senator is getting pushback from the food industry which says there's no evidence that cutting ads makes kids healthier.
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