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    According to the article:"Mom, Dad, Buy the broccoli" Junk food advertisements have gotten out of control. A group was formed to run a program and promote healthier foods, they want to limit these kind of advertisements in schools, and they want to cut back on advertising junk food. The obesity among the young is also mentioned and related with these junk food advertisements. I think that parents have the major responsibility to control what their children eat because children learn, imitate, and obey what their parents say.

    Since children were born, they learn everything they see. They taste everything that parents give them to eat, so it is very important that parents teach their children to eat healthy food since they are little babies. When i was a kid i didnt  like to eat vegetables or anything that was related with healthy food, but my parents used to be hard on me, they used to force me to eat fruit instead of candies or chocolates, they allow me to eat some candies but not frequetly, so i learned that fruits were good for my health.

Parents are most of the time with their children at home so they can show them how to eat healthy food like vegetables,fruits, or food low in fat. It would be good if children learn how to compare healthy food and junk food. I see many parents take their children to eat at McDonald's very often and they dont explain them that eating at McDonald's is not healthy. Parents have most of the responsability seeing what their children eat because their are adults and know what is best for their kids. Children imitate everything that adults do, they pay attention and learn fast all they see specially from their parents, so it would be good if parents eat healthy food during the lunch time, that way they would be attracting kids' attention .


Children who know how to choose healthy food tend to grow up healthy and with less probability to become obese or have diseases like diabetes. I think that these diseases are serious consequences of eating junk food. Nowadays i like to eat vegetables, fruits, instead of candies, chocolates or the kind of food that some companies like MacDonal's used to provide us, but this is only thanks to my parents who control my eating habits all the time.

In conclusion, Food industry have made unhealthy food for many years, and they always promoted their food on everywhere like tv,schools, streets,  so i dont think it is going to help if they reduce to advertise their Junk Food, but the only thing is going to help children learn to eat healthy is that their parents start to be concious in what they teach them.