TV Food Ads Market Unhealthy Diet

New research has shown that TV food ads market an unhealthy diet .
Those who decide their food options based on telly ads are at health risk, according to a new study which has discovered that the adverts purely market a very imbalanced diet.
Researchers uncovered that a 2,000 calorie diet comprised advertised foods with around 25 times the recommended servings of sugar and 20 times the recommended servings of fat, with less than 50 per cent of the recommended servings of fruits, vegetables and dairy .
The excess of servings of sugars and fat is so immense that, eating only one of the observed food items would provide thrice the recommended daily servings for sugar and nearly thrice the recommended serving for fat for the whole day.
It is evident that, only do we consume television programmes and become addicted to them; we are also consuming what the television tells us to eat.
We are literally becoming a nation of consumers.
This is an unhealthy way of life and something we ought to attempt to transform.

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