Toronto works on banning unhealthy food advertising for kids

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Marketing to kids has been a long debated topic as cartoon characters,  TV shows and smartphone game apps have been shown to influence kid’s food choices.

Quebec has had restrictions on child-targeted food ads since 1980’s according to a recent news article and now Toronto wants to follow suit as well to help decrease risks of childhood obesity and diabetes.

The board of health voted on Monday, April 25, 2016, to ban commercial ads to children under 16 years of age.

The city’s Medical Officer of Health reported in the same news article that 29 percent of kids in grades 7-12 were overweight or obese, and one in five students eat sugar or salty snacks more than three times a day.

Latino kids are often more likely to see unhealthy ads for unhealthy foods and sugary beverages, helping to limit unhealthy ads may help reduce risks of obesity and diabetes in Latino kids.

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