article_snippet.sent: Should fast food and sugary drink companies be allowed to advertise sugary drink companies junk food to children?
article_snippet.sent: Should TV ads promoting unhealthy food and drink be banned until the watershed, or wiped out altogether to save adults' waistlines too?
article_snippet.sent: A recent survey by the British Heart Foundation showed two fifths of parents are badgered by two fifths of parents children each week to buy food after seeing it advertised on TV, prompting the charity to deliver a 30,000 strong petition asking the Government to ban junk food adverts being shown before the 9pm watershed .
article_snippet.sent: A recent British Heart Foundation survey showed two fifths of more than 2,000 parents are badgered by two fifths of them children each week to buy food after seeing it advertised on TVA recent British Heart Foundation survey , and feel that TV junk food adverts make it difficult to help two fifths of them children eat a healthy diet.
article_snippet.sent: There is plenty of scientific evidence to back up our frustrations too – showing that food commercials aimed at children focus on products high in fat, salt and sugar, and that youngsters develop positive attitudes towards the foods they see advertised.
article_snippet.sent: Despite regulation, children in the UK are still being exposed to more TV advertising for unhealthy than healthy food items, even at peak children's viewing times.
article_snippet.sent: What's more, regulation doesn't prevent the advertising of unhealthy products during programmes in the 'family entertainment' bracket, which include some of the most popular television programmes watched by children such as X-Factor and Britain's Got Talent.
article_snippet.sent: The BHF has therefore just delivered a 30,000 strong petition, asking Government to ban junk food adverts from being shown before the 9pm watershed, to help protect our children from making unhealthy choices.
article_snippet.sent: As someone at the forefront of managing obesity, I am furious that we are allowing blatant advertising to influence we children in other ways.
article_snippet.sent: Dr Norton backs the British Heart Foundation's bid to ban TV junk food ads before 9pm .
article_snippet.sent: Reducing TV advertising to children as the British Heart Foundation are suggesting, will, of course reduce the number of junk food advertisements children see.
article_snippet.sent: But, as the London Eye disgrace shows, junk food advertising isn't limited to TV.
article_snippet.sent: There are plenty of ways by which companies can market to kids or adults outside of TV advertising and the regulations for non-broadcast advertising are currently weak or non-existent.
article_snippet.sent: A study by the Children's Food Campaign, of 100 websites featuring food likely to be bought or requested by children, found that more than 80 per cent of online adverts were associated with foods classed as less healthy and therefore not allowed to be advertised during children's TV programmes.
article_snippet.sent: Sneaky junk food advertising is invading all aspects of life
article_snippet.sent: So, it's a big 'yes please' to banning junk food advertising before 9pm.
article_snippet.sent: Plenty of other advertising opportunities are open and Plenty of other advertising opportunities are busy working on how to manipulate us and us kids into buying more and more of the heavily processed rubbish that is damaging us health.
highlights_snippet.sent: British Heart Foundation survey shows two thirds of parents feel badgered by two thirds of parents children each week to buy junk food after seeing British Heart Foundation survey advertised .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Weight loss expert Dr Sally Norton backed calls for ban on TV ads .
  