Here is a previous DCUK Newsbot thread along similar lines on radical advertisingchanges:
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/th...changes-to-drive-down-obesity-numbers.160861/
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Mr Watson told the audience that "advertising has an awesome power to shape our lifestyles". He added: "We face a public health crisis in the UK, and one of the main causes is refined sugar in our foods and drinks. "The results are horrific: 26,000 children hospitalised with rotten teeth. The worst obesity rates in western Europe. And the catastrophe of type 2 diabetes, taking lives and costing the NHS £10 billion a year. "I'm making it my political mission to change this. That's why I've launched an independent commission into how we reverse the increase in type 2 diabetes in a single parliament." He is calling for social prescribing by GPs, more taxes on sugar in food and drinks, stronger regulations on packaging and labels and "radical changes" to the way junk food is marketed. He added: "I want you to think deeply about how advertising could help transform the lives of Britain's 3.7 million identified diabetics."”
A good speech from Mr Watson, but what will come of it, who knows? and with children getting type 2 diabetes it is indeed, shocking and worrying. So many things are 'on tap' now, apps on phones for food outlet's, less exercise, because of more sedentary lifestyles, kids with their faces in a screen all the time, action needs to be put into place now.
It's a big wake up call for the 21st century.........................
