Solution to reduce obesity in children

The ban on fast food ads in the United States has reduced a significant proportion of 18% of obese children, which is information from a recent study published in the Journal of Economics and Law. past month. The study also concluded that abolishing the tax reduction policy with television advertising would also reduce the case of childhood obesity despite a modest number.

This study was carried out by researchers from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the National Institutes of Health. The economists of NBER Shin-Yi Chou (Lehigh University), Inas Rashad (Georgia State University), and Michael Grossman (City University - New york Education Center) are co-authors in the research paper. about the amount of time to advertise fast food on television that children watch weekly.

The authors found that banning the promotion of this food in a children's program would reduce 18% of obese children aged 3-11 years, while lower with 14% in children. adolescents aged 12-18. This effect is more common with boys than girls.

Although the ban is an effective way, the authors also question whether with a high level of government participation - and the cost of implementing these policies - is a realistic option. Should the United States continue that path or should they follow Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish as these are the only countries in the world that mute commercial-purpose donors in children's programs.

Professors from Lehigh Chou and Frank L. Magee University of Business and Economic Studies have come up with some conclusions: 'We sometimes realize that childhood obesity will hinder our culture. But experienced research shows that television advertising is a cause. Hopefully, studies like these can provide serious solutions to policies that can limit the spread of obesity in the United States. '

The ban on fast food ads in the United States has reduced a significant proportion of 18% of children who are obese, which is information from a recent study. ( Photo: iStockphoto / Carmen Martínez Banús)

The paper also points out that the abolition of tax exemptions for advertising business means reducing child obesity, although at a 5-7% rate. Advertising business is viewed as a business expense, reducing the company's tax income. The authors speculate that because the aggregate tax rate is 35% when abolishing tax exemption policies from food advertising costs, it means increasing the cost of advertising to 54%.

Such moves will reduce fast food adverts over 40% for children and 33% for minors.

The paper - how widespread it is to reduce obesity in children by limiting fast food advertising on television - is based on the habit of nearly 13,000 children using data from the survey. National Survey of Children in the period of adult learning in 1979 and the National Youth Survey in 1997, both of which were conducted by the US Department of Labor.

A 2006 report from the Institute of Health pointed out a clear evidence regarding the advertising of fast food on television and the increasing obesity in children.'Some of the report board members have proposed an adjustment at the conference on TV commercials aimed at children, but the report also identifies the connection between children. I'm getting fat because watching fast food ads is impossible. Our research paper provides evidence of that. ' Grossman made his point.

Centers for the study of estimated diseases between 1970 and 1999, the proportion of obese children aged 6-11 will be three times as high as 13% . Adolescent children between the ages of 12-19 also have a rapid increase to 14%.

This study has identified 80% of the chances that an adolescent child will become an adult obese and over 300,000 obese deaths in the US every year.