Crack-down on children's junk food ads

My photo shows how one transnational corporation (Frito-Lays owned by Pepsico) appeals to local tastes by flavoring their junk food with seasonings that would be recognized by Thai people. And yes kids do buy these snacks usually in a 7 Eleven, another transnational corporation. Are local vendors with their homemade and perhaps healthier snacks put out of business? It's very possible.

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My photo was taken during a medical mission in Marinduque, Philippines. Where I witnessed hundreds of people getting tooth extractions as well as other medical procedures. I thought it was ironic that they were selling and giving away candy in a place that was educating healthier life

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This photo was taken in a Mr. Donut franchise in Tokyo, Japan. There are lots of fast/ junk food outlets there, patronized by mostly the youths; ironic as most Japanese food are the healthiest around.

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I feel I should say that I don't blame childhood obesity solely on junk food, I think it is just one of the many factors at work, a major one being passive recreation activities. I think it lies with parents to educate their children as to how advertising works and achieve a healthy balance.

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Parents and guardians, though, also have to be a more powerful force in their households than the television screen. As gramarye says, the junk-food/obesity crisis isn't just about the junk food. 

I snapped my photo on Super Bowl Sunday - one of those days that we throw all sorts of junk out there and decide it's ok to partake. 

Cheese burger with french fries, Manhattan Diner, NYC, feb 2008

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Who buys the food for the kids? Who gives them the money to buy it at school? THE PARENTS!!! Stop making laws against businesses and start fining irresponsible paretns for feeding this stuff to their children! I am a single mom and I work a long hard day. I still manage to put fresh fruit into my 13 year olds body and have taught him to do the same when I am not around. Sure, we snack on Mc Donald's from time to time, but not everyday!

Kids don't buy their cereal. Kids do not buy their snacks that are in the pantry. Parents do. It is their fault and no one elses. If the kids cry and throw tantrums...SO WHAT? Discipline that child and be done with it...don't shirk all responsibility and BLAME the makers of the food! What asad world we live in where parents lose control of thier kids and cry to the government to help them out of a mess they created. I'm tired of being nanny-ed by the government.  

I'd provide the recipe for these, but this doesn't seem like an appropriate time. :-D

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I was in Naples, Florida on business and am always fascinated with roadside culture. We don't have any Waffle Houses where I live (close to New York City), so we decided to stop in.

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this is automatic vending machine at the corner in my school. When the class is over, some feel hungry and boring, including me, so just walk to the machine, insert some coins, just buy and eat. sometimes just for fun.
the price is from 70 cents to 1.50 dollars

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This is my head-master. When I went that recess to the kiosk, she seemed as in a really good mood... she petted my back and smiled, which isn't often. Afterwards she went to buy some croissants... it was easy to decide on her lunch, because, the difference between products is only 0.5 RON. That is, if you're considering pastry

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My photos were the end result of a beat-winter, "Iron Chef"-style cooking challenge among friends. This year's challenge was based on the 1965 Blake Edwards movie "The Great Race", and this week's theme was 'car food'. The moderator, in the course of researching, discovered that Americans, on average, eat 2.5 meals per week in their cars. This statistic is true regardless of age! So each team was provided with food that could be found in cars -- a variety of fast food, food in bags, and food in boxes. We were given a time limit, required to provide a main dish, a side dish, and a dessert, and the final stipulation was to make sure that the end result was unrecognizable from its origins.

It was fun; everything was not only edible, but more palatable than it started. That was probably largely due to the permission to raid the fridge, freezer, and pantry. So most of us DID add fresh elements. But frankly, we all agreed that to subsist on that many chemicals was an abomination. NONE of us pack like that when we go on road or camping trips.

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