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The UN Has A Plan For What Americans Can — And Can’t — Watch On TV
Daily Caller ^ | 02/23/2015 | Blake Neff

Posted on 02/23/2015 4:23:52 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Fat kids are serious business. So serious, in fact, that the United Nations is urging countries to let its bureaucrats micromanage what foods are allowed to advertise on TV.

The European branch of the World Health Organization (WHO), the health arm of the U.N., is trying to stop childhood obesity by urging countries to adopt an international blueprint that would ban almost all food advertisements targeted at children and place substantial regulatory influence in the hands of the UN.

Advocates of advertising restrictions argue that children learn to identify brands early in childhood, and that those who see lots of junk food advertising ultimately eat more of it and wind up becoming obese in higher numbers.

The WHO’s international bureaucrats believe that abolishing food marketing towards children is a helpful step to rolling back obesity, and last week’s announcement complained that individual governments are not acting fast enough to please them.

“Despite progress in some countries, government action to restrict such marketing remains less than optimal,” the group’s announcement said. That is simply unacceptable, and WHO officials hope that by taking care of all the actual work in deciding what foods to ban, national governments will more easily follow their lead.

With that in mind, last week, WHO’s Regional Office for Europe released a “nutrient profile model” that it recommends as the model for how countries go about deciding what foods should be locked out of advertising to children. Such a model is currently only used in a handful of countries, including Norway, the U.K. and Denmark, but WHO is hoping that with its nudging more countries will imitate these policies.

The exhaustive model breaks foods into 17 different groups, ranging from processed fruits and vegetables to cheese. Each category is evaluated on its nutritional content per 100g of food. Foods that exceed thresholds for sugar, fat, salt or calories would be barred from any marketing that would increase the food’s appeal to children. For example, a cheese would fall under the ban if it contains at least 20g of fat or 1.3g of salt per 100g.

If adopted, the model would totally prohibit all advertisements for chocolate, candy, cake, sugary soda, ice cream and fruit juice. The only foods subject to no restrictions whatsoever are meats fresh fruits, poultry and vegetables.

While that level of suppression may strike some as a heavy dose of statism, especially when pushed by a transnational organization, WHO argues that it’s long overdue.

“Given the current epidemic of childhood obesity across Europe, there is no justification for marketing products that have little nutritional value and contribute to unhealthy diets,” WHO official Dr. Gauden Galea said in the organization’s statement. “The tool that we are offering to countries to adapt and use would protect children from the harmful effects of marketing of foods high in energy, saturated fats, trans fatty acids, free sugars and salt.”


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Fascists never think they're the fascists.
1 posted on 02/23/2015 4:23:52 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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Agenda 21 Ping

The European branch of the World Health Organization (WHO), the health arm of the U.N., is trying to stop childhood obesity by urging countries to adopt an international blueprint that would ban almost all food advertisements targeted at children and place substantial regulatory influence in the hands of the UN.


2 posted on 02/23/2015 4:28:05 PM PST by Whenifhow
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Wow, all kids have to do is WATCH a commercial for junk food and they gain weight? I would have figured it had something to do with what their parents actually feed them and how much television/video game time they allow. Thank God for the government.


3 posted on 02/23/2015 4:32:36 PM PST by Roos_Girl (The world is full of educated derelicts. - Calvin Coolidge)
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that in mind, last week, WHO’s Regional Office for Europe released a “nutrient profile model” that it recommends as the model for how countries go about deciding what foods should be locked out of advertising to children. 


parents...what happened to them???


4 posted on 02/23/2015 4:33:01 PM PST by RginTN
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parents...what happened to them???

Socialists are doing their best to replace them with it takes a village idiots.

5 posted on 02/23/2015 4:46:25 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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"Fascists never think they're the fascists." They see themselves as the hero's
6 posted on 02/23/2015 4:50:27 PM PST by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I have a plan for the UN.. GTFO of the US.


7 posted on 02/23/2015 4:52:31 PM PST by ScottinVA (Communism, liberalism and Islam: Kindred ideologies dedicated to America's destruction.)
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8 posted on 02/23/2015 5:01:49 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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WTF? What is it? Kids are fat or kids are starving? I hear ads everyday about kids who are struggling with hunger.
And then schools are now feeding kids breakfast, lunch and dinner. All the while EBT cards are at a high time high?


9 posted on 02/23/2015 5:04:50 PM PST by FreedomGuru (Oil is as organic as Tofu and daffodils.)
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“Better Call Ban-ki”


10 posted on 02/23/2015 5:06:05 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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Those redneck Militias in the US were right about the UN really controlling the country ,LOL


11 posted on 02/23/2015 5:07:31 PM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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protect children from the harmful effects of marketing of foods high in energy...

Let them eat dirt...it’s low in energy and it’s non-fattening.....plus it’s got electrolites!


12 posted on 02/23/2015 5:09:39 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Amazing... because we all know that the only reason kids prefer donuts over broccoli is the advertising. Right.

This is utterly ludicrous. It seems that the more government has tried to control food intake, the fatter people have become. Maybe it’s time to go back to pre-1970s eating habits, and give kids recess again. Also, quit feeding them swill at school. It seems “healthy” school lunches have quite an effect on causing obesity.


13 posted on 02/23/2015 6:01:09 PM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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Plan? You mean they aren’t already doing it?


14 posted on 02/23/2015 6:05:22 PM PST by Varsity Flight (Extortion-Care is is the Government Work-Camp: Arbeitsziehungslager)
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To: FreedomGuru

I was approached by a do gooder collecting money for childhood hunger.
I laughed and said have you seen the kids in Oakland? First graders weighing a 100 pounds? Girls in high school tipping the scales at 300 pounds?
As you said what is it hunger or obesity?


15 posted on 02/23/2015 6:19:54 PM PST by peteyd (A dog may bite you in the ass,but it will never stab you in the back.)
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The UN needs to be pushed into the east river


16 posted on 02/23/2015 6:27:45 PM PST by ronnie raygun (Empty head empty suit = arrogant little bastard)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If it violates the Constitution it is void on arrival


17 posted on 02/23/2015 6:38:29 PM PST by GeronL
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To: ronnie raygun

I agree with that!


18 posted on 02/23/2015 7:35:28 PM PST by peteyd (A dog may bite you in the ass,but it will never stab you in the back.)
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To: Whenifhow

Thanks for the ping!


19 posted on 02/23/2015 8:19:51 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Does’t matter. Nabisco, Keebler, and the rest will just make up for it with product placement in the shows.


20 posted on 02/24/2015 8:34:16 AM PST by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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