Peer Response 2

1. Read and respond to your classmates, supplying at least one strategy teachers can use to combat unhealthy media messages in the early childhood setting.

PEERS POST:

The biggest way the media promotes buying unhealthy food is through ads aimed only for kids. Shown in the video from the prevention institute about unhealthy foods being advertised during children programing. The commercials shown are all about the “fruity taste” and how “This cereal is only for kids”. More specifically the Trix cereal commercials have the famous line “Silly Rabbit Trixs are for kids”. This is a unhealthy programming for children to see constantly that these unhealthy foods are for you which will make kids want these foods more and more.

              The study done by the American Academy of Pediatrics about effects of advertising on the health of the children of American states that children who watch more TV are showed to consume more calories and eat fattier foods. The companies that make these commercials know this too. Fast food companies have spent 4.2 billion on advertising in all types of media. This shows that these companies are doing this on purpose.

              Unfortunately, a major reason that parents would settle for fast food or junk food is that it is cheaper. We see most families that are in poverty tend to be more obese. Another reason is fast food and junk food has an easier access than healthy food. You see fast food places on every corner and in every small town or village. While healthier places are located in higher populated cities.

              Long term studies have been done all across the world and all data shows that excess tv watching have mostly led to obesity in their later life. Some studies showed that a child having a tv in their bedroom will impact the risk of obesity.

-Hays Collins

 

References

American Academy of Pediatrics. (2011). Policy statement—children, adolescents, obesity, and the

     media.  Pediatrics,  128(1), 201–208. doi:10.1542/peds.2011-1066

Prevention Institute. (2011, October 3).  We’re not buying it: Stop junk food marketing to kids [Video file].

  Retrieved from https://youtu.be/ab9zbqHJ_p4

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American Academy of Pediatrics (2011) and Prevention Institute (2011)