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• A reply on Conversation: We need stricter regulations on commercials about unhealthy foods on TV. Replacing those with ads about healthy food will make a difference.

  Mar 31 2011: I don't so much agree with the" little to nothing par"t. It could be little effect that could lead to greater effects. I would be down to see them actually do it. And If doesn't have much effect in 20 years, sure, release the restrictions. Although we can predict the effects, or the outcomes, we never fully know about the outcomes for sure until we do it.

• A reply on Conversation: We need stricter regulations on commercials about unhealthy foods on TV. Replacing those with ads about healthy food will make a difference.

  Mar 31 2011: I agree. Companies hire psychologists to learn about children's cognitions and understanding. Marketers know that kids under age 8 believe in the literal meaning of what's being displayed on TV. So, rather than having marketers taking advantage of it in a bad way, we can be using it the other way around, and displaying ads that promote healthy eating. Setting an accurate awareness to kids could be an easier task than changing the perspectives of parents. Just like writing something on a fresh sheet of paper, rather than trying to erase what's already been written and trying to write new things on it. It would be good if we can educate both parents and children. Although I'm not sure how. I acknowledge that one way could not bring a solution to a problem.But hey, one will not be so much as single. It could have good impacts.

• A reply on Conversation: We need stricter regulations on commercials about unhealthy foods on TV. Replacing those with ads about healthy food will make a difference.

  Mar 31 2011: My brother is a child, I'm a sister who wants him to grow up healthy, educated and aware. My parents have just the same wishes as me. I am happy to say that we have been lucky to have good education and awareness, to be responsible caretakers. But my research paper was certainly not about my brother. I am concerned about kids are not granted with parents with good awareness about what's being displayed on the TV commercials.
  
  You seem to suggest that we don't need a government at all.
  But we do need a government. I'd like to believe that government works to provide welfare to public. They should be responsible, not for the well-being of my brother, but for the well-being of the society as a whole.

• A reply on Conversation: We need stricter regulations on commercials about unhealthy foods on TV. Replacing those with ads about healthy food will make a difference.

  Mar 31 2011: Lynn, there is no means of denying the parents' responsibilities here. They should be the most responsible of all, however, I am trying to say that the pressure shouldn't be wholly on the parents.
  
  Its not about my brother, or this one particular kid whose parents are being irresponsible. It's about the government putting some thoughts about public health, especially children's health. After all, children is our future. While other countries take some action to protect their children, why can't United States do similar things?
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  A reply on Conversation: We need stricter regulations on commercials about unhealthy foods on TV. Replacing those with ads about healthy food will make a difference.

  Mar 31 2011: well said

• A reply on Conversation: We need stricter regulations on commercials about unhealthy foods on TV. Replacing those with ads about healthy food will make a difference.

  Mar 31 2011: Agree with you Adam!

• A reply on Conversation: We need stricter regulations on commercials about unhealthy foods on TV. Replacing those with ads about healthy food will make a difference.

  Mar 31 2011: I believe that TV is one way of connecting to the society. I grew up watching TV (in another country though) and indeed I learned a lot from watching TV. There are a lot of things you can actually learn just by watching TV. My brother learned how to speak English fluently by watching a TV. When kids are learning and it is hard to cut off the television from them. My point is: it is the commercials that are harmful to children.

• A reply on Conversation: We need stricter regulations on commercials about unhealthy foods on TV. Replacing those with ads about healthy food will make a difference.

  Mar 31 2011: Yessss!! Thanks
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  A reply on Conversation: We need stricter regulations on commercials about unhealthy foods on TV. Replacing those with ads about healthy food will make a difference.

  Mar 31 2011: I don't mean to deny any responsibility. Surely it is a responsibility for every parents to control their children. But kids are not only interacting with their parents. They are living in a society just like every one of us, interacting with various types of people, being exposed to different media, information, and being influenced by peers and friends. Whatever looks cool to them on tv, they want to have it. Especially if their friends have it, they gotta have it.
  
  I don't have much concerns over kids and their households who are aware about unhealthy foods, and that they are able to look after their kids and control what they can buy. On the other hand, there are parents, working a full-time menial job, struggling to support a living, and unable to dedicate a deserving time to their children. They even don't know much about unhealthy foods themselves, and they don't know to shut off the TV for their kids. Another case, immigrant parents, also working menial jobs, some don't even know what's on TV. They think watching tv is good for them, and they are learning a lot of things. They do learn a lot of things from watching TV. But not from the commercials.
  
  So, these cases can go on and on. I mean, just because the parents can't afford to look after their children, it is upsetting that their kids will be more vulnerable to marketing tricks, and unhealthy foods, and obesity.

• A reply on Conversation: We need stricter regulations on commercials about unhealthy foods on TV. Replacing those with ads about healthy food will make a difference.

  Mar 31 2011: I agree Julie, that a lot of people don't seem to mind about the calorie. On that note, I think we need to educate people beyond calories, and more about what impacts these unhealthy foods have on them. Sometimes numbers is just numbers, it doesn't tell people the effect. It is just that a lot of people think they can afford McDonald, but can't afford healthy food. We need to change their perspectives and let them realize what those unhealthy foods are doing to them and their kids.