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This article details the connection between food advertisements and childhood obesity. The chapter mentions that critics are concerned by how advertisements negatively affect impressionable children. This article shows the real health affects advertising can have on youth. The article also mentions the connection between advertisements and other eating disorders. An interesting statistic in the article is that with one more hour of TV viewing, children are likely to consume 47 more calories/day.
http://www.apa.org/topics/kids-media/food.aspx