Study Says Banning Fast Food Ads May Help Fight Obesity

Washington (dbTechno) - According to a new study, banning fast food advertisements may actually be able to reduce the level of obesity in the U.S.

The study was led by Shin-Yi Chou from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, and used data from 13,000 children from the 1979 Child-Young Adult National Longitudinal Survey of Youth.  Other data came from the National Longitudal Survey of Youth in 1997 as well.

What they found was that a ban on fast food advertisements could have a major impact on childhood obesity.

Researchers believe that if a ban on fast food ads was put in place, it could reduce the number of kids who were are overweight from ages 3-11 by 18%.

Going further, it would reduce the number of kids between the ages of 12-18 who are overweight by 14%.

With childhood obesity on the rise in the U.S. this may be something that is taken very seriously across the country.

Television advertising is the latest focus as to one of the major causes of obesity.

The biggest issue though would likely be trying to impose something of this magnitude.