Food manufacturer web games discourage exercise
By: Bernice Hurst | 14 July 2006
Soaring child obesity rates are forcing food manufacturers to back away from TV advertising. So isn't it a trifle absurd that so many of the big guns are investing heavily in websites where children sit in front of a computer screen playing games instead? Bernice Hurst suspects bad faith.
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Soaring child obesity rates are forcing food manufacturers to back away from TV advertising. So isn't it a trifle absurd that so many of the big guns are investing heavily in websites where children sit in front of a computer screen playing games instead? Bernice Hurst suspects bad faith.
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