Kaiser Family Foundation Argument Essay

Both the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Federal Trade Commission make strong arguments and I agree with both sides. I do not think that advertising plays that much of a huge role in childhood obesity as the Kaiser Family Foundation argues, but I do think that it may have a relatively big influence on exposing the child to their interest in food early on. Exposing the child to food targeted to young children such as candies or unhealthy appealing foods will eventually gain the interest of the child and most-likely lead to a more unhealthy lifestyle in the future. The FTC’s argument is supported by statistical facts not dealing with the direct effect of obesity but rather on the rates of food-related advertising being shown to children at certain