Your kids love junk food? Blame Facebook

[microrobert]

Your kids love junk food? Blame Facebook

Junk foods are not good for developing brains and bodies but if your child appears to love eating too much junk food, the social networking site Facebook may be to blame.

Researchers from the University of Sydney in Australia found that social media websites contribute significantly to the marketing of junk foods to teenagers. Findings of their study, which was published in the American Journal of Public Health, suggests that energy-dense, nutrient-poor (EDNP) brands tap on Facebook to market unhealthy food products that are known to contribute to the increasing prevalence of obesity and lifestyle diseases.

For the study, the researchers analyzed the Facebook pages of 27 food and beverage brands including those of Coca-Cola, Subway, Slurpee and Maltesers, evaluating their marketing techniques, engagement with followers and marketing messages.

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/18805/20141027/your-kids-love-junk-food-blame-facebook.htm

[Dictator]

Blame the parents who let kids use facebook instead.

[ProN00b]

Blame the parents who let kids use facebook instead.

If you won't let your kid use facebook, peers and classmates will probably bully him by calling him a idiot and moron because doesn't know what is facebook or doesn't have profile.

[dude]

There will always be pressure for junk. Before Facebook it was TV ads, magazines and billboards. It is the parents job to teach their kids what is good and bad, not Facebook's.

[Linebacker]

Blame yourselves cause you are damn worthless parents.

The typical blame someone else for you incompetence.

[Ivan Kramskoï]

As a child, many of my classmates loved junk food and facebook did not even exist.
The problem is the parents that do not give their children a good upbringing.

[oh-nahhh]

Blame Canada.