Luckily we live in a world of choice. We can choose to eat junk or not to. The only problem with junk food arises when we eat too much of the stuff and this is true for virtually all foods. Moderation!

The truth is that kids like something or hate it and no amount of advertising will change this. Sadly most enjoy burgers and other junk foods but they also enjoy chocolate. Again the answer is moderation. Chocolate is a treat and, in my family so is a burger meal at our local junk food store.

My kids are now 12 and 16 and they are more likely to order a healthy meal than grab a burger. They understand the dangers of eating badly so, besides moderation, education is important. The UK government obviously finds it far easier to ban something rather than invest in decent education and other methods of decreasing recent trends in the increases in childhood obeisity.

Now that is pure laziness.

I love the term “banned-wagon”. I must use it in future. It’s even better than bansturbation.

Hide junk food from kids tv and they’ll never care for junk food.

Hide anything remotely sex-related from being on tv when kids can see it and underage pregnancy will be no more.

Hide alcohol sponsorship from kids football tops if the little’uns want to play in a tournament (I had to wear my liverpool top inside out due to the Carlsberg logo) and alcoholism among the footballing-classes will cease to be.

Toxic’s comment is right on the money. Labour are quite happy jumping on the banned-wagon to make it look like they can make a difference. But you just have to look at drugs as the perfect example of how banning the advertising of products will not cure such problems.

Pills, weed, crack? Seen those ads in the middle of Corrie recently? Are these ‘industries’ still raking in the cash despite an ad ban? You bet your favourite Happy Meal they are.

Thousands upon thousands of drug addicts up and down the country, a problem Labour cannot solve just by banning anything. Education, might be a good start, both on drugs and on fatty foods, on tv, in the playgrounds and most importantly, in the homes of these ridiculous people on netmums. But that doesn’t give Labour their image of…

Labour: it may not work, but at least we’re always doing something, now.

I agree with you that the real problem is that people just seem to play the lapdog subservient to the food companies etc and will just lap up whatever’s advertised to them.Then the companies just push more ads to get people buying more stuff to push up their revenues.I don’t see how a government is going to stop this with silly irrelevant legislation.

No matter what, it’s always someone else who is to blame.

And there’s always someone there ready with the red rubber stamp to ban things, a favourite of labour.