I was fired up after watching a recent Dateline segment that focused on obesity on the U.S with special emphasis on kids and today's hypnotic barrage of advertising from the likes of fast food and cold cereal giants. The most alarming part of this Dateline special was when they conducted a panel with children (I say around the ages 5-6) and had them choose between two items for breakfast. Get this: On the last choice, the kids were given the option of a plain banana or rock platered with popular cartoon characters. All of the kids picked the rock!
Read the article Whose to blame for the US obesity epidemic.
From the article, you can go to the MSNBC site and see the video clips from the Dateline segment. You have to check it out. It is very sobering.
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