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Call for UN crackdown on junk food ads

Enforcing changes to end unhealthy food marketing to children requires a radical new approach, such as using international human rights laws to make companies more responsible for their advertising messages.

Four ways junk food brands befriend kids online

If a stranger offered a child free lollies in return for their picture, the parent would justifiably be angry. When this occurs on Facebook, they may not even realise it’s happening.

Regional South Australians are the fattest people in Australia. Image: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire.

Junk food tax, ad ban urged to fight childhood obesity

The Government should tax unhealthy foods to subsidise healthy ones, ban junk-food advertising and exclude fast-food outlets from school areas, a South Australian citizens’ jury recommends.

The kids aren't all right: SA children living on junk food

Almost half of what South Australian children eat is junk food, new research shows.