English essay
An article written by Emma Rebellato presents the idea that children see too many junk food advertisements. Advertisements play a major role in the promotion of unhealthy foods and children are victims of these advertisements. It is the health department’s responsibility to create limitations for the advertisers and help parents keep their children’s health under control. This essay will look at the manipulation of children by the advertisers, health implications and the role of parents in this issue.

In this paragraph, I will attempt to demonstrate the manipulation of the media on young children. I will do this by addressing research by the Responsible Children’s Marketing Initiative compliance report. The Australian Food and Grocery Council say that they did not knowingly target children. However an independent report by the Responsible Children’s Marketing Initiative compliance report show that they acknowledge their products did not satisfy healthy standards. An audit showed that there was in fact adverts that were unhealthy and aimed at children. Further complaints were filed against advertisers who were caught advertising unhealthy. Therefore I think that children are being sucked into these advertisements by the way that advertisers make the food look appealing and very appetising.

In this paragraph, I will show that unhealthy advertisements are dangerous and I can prove that because I have two examples. During the peak children’s television LCM’s were advertised six times and LeSnack was advertised four times from the hours of three to seven. The problem with these two advertisements is that they are advertising products that contain extreme levels of sugar and sodium. One example of unhealthy advertisements is LCM’s. one serving of twenty two grams LCM’s contains six point six grams of sugar. Approximately fourty percent of the bar is