Research

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Limiting children's exposure to advertising of foods high in salt, sugar, and fat is a cost-effective intervention that gains thousands of years of life in good health annually.

Support policies that restrict advertising of unhealthy foods to children. The evidence shows this is a low-cost, high-impact way to improve population health.

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Over 10,000 years of life in good health could be gained in western Europe each year, and even more in central and eastern Europe, at a negligible cost, by limiting children’s exposure to advertising of foods and beverages high in salt, sugar and fat.
Marion Nestle · Nutrition Today · 1988

Why this rating

Based on economic evaluation of advertising restrictions.

Source

Promoting Health and Preventing Disease

Marion Nestle · Nutrition Today · 1988

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