{"id":353,"date":"2008-11-10T17:41:03","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T15:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/2008\/11\/10\/ftc-report-marketing-children\/"},"modified":"2015-03-10T08:42:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T12:42:47","slug":"ftc-report-marketing-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/ftc-report-marketing-children\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC Report: Marketing To Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elissa and I have discussed childhood obesity and its various ramifications on this blog numerous times. As you know, we both believe it is a worrying trend, and one that needs to be addressed- and fast. We&#8217;ve also discussed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/the-food-industrys-role-in-rising-childhood-obesity-rates\/\" target=\"_self\">role of the food industry<\/a> in this growing trend; with its massive clout and all-pervading advertising campaigns, it has a huge impact upon children&#8217;s health.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I highly recommend you have a look at the Federal Trade Commission&#8217;s July 2008 Report To Congress entitled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/reports\/marketing-food-children-adolescents-review-industry-expenditures-activities-self-regulation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marketing Food To Children And Adolescents; A Review of Industry Expenditures, Activities, and Self Regulation<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I recognize this is a large document. However, if you read the &#8220;executive summary&#8221; and the first 20 pages of the report, you&#8217;ll have a pretty good idea of what your kids are up against. $1.6 BILLION in advertising packs a heck of a punch!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elissa and I have discussed childhood obesity and its various ramifications on this blog numerous times. As you know, we both believe it is a worrying trend, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[1846,78,80,1848,651,683],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10062,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/10062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}