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This is a report from the public health think tank, the International Obesity Task Force. It is about how the childhood obesity problem has globalized. It talks about how TV and internet are affecting children nowadays and the rise in childhood obesity. Exploitative marketing techniques used on the internet and television advertising is mentioned as a reason. Click here.

Although this problem has globalized and even the developing countries has this problem, United States is still in the top of this serious childhood obesity problem. There is a lot of reason to this, but in my opinion, although the amount of ads promoted to children are the same among the countries, the radical reason that United States has a serious childhood obesity problem might just be that the food is generally unhealthy in United States…

This article is also interesting to check out. It mentions in the end about how it is difficult to define that childhood obesity problem comes from advertising and marketing. However, it is still relevant. 

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