Should there be a junk food marketing crackdown in Ireland?
The Hard Shoulder · Newstalk
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Just five minutes. That’s all it takes for junk food ads to tip the scales for young children. That’s according to research in the UK, which suggests that even watching a couple minutes of junk food advertising will lead to significantly more calories eaten in a day.
If that is the case, should we crack down harder on junk food marketing in Ireland?
Orla Walsh, Dietitian at Orla Walsh Nutrition and Mimi Tatlow Golden, Professor of Interdisciplinary studies in Childhood and Youth at the Open University join Kieran to discuss.