Disney Kids Networks to Ban Junk Food Ads

Hollywood Reporter ^ | June 5, 2012 | Georg Szalai

[kelly4c]

Yeah it’s weird, all this concern for other people’s kids physical health but these same libs don’t care much about their spiritual/emotional health do they? Pretty superficial people I guess.

[Red Badger]

My wife threw away some strawberries last night that she had in one of those ‘green’ containers that’s supposed to keep stuff fresh longer. They had mold growing all over them............

[funfan]

So I wonder why they did not do this before Michelle partnered with them as it is being hailed as Michelle Obamas
initiative. Thank goodness she is looking out for everyones kids or the Private companies would not know what products to advertise and the parents would not know what to
buy for their own children. All hail Michelle!

[Irenic]

Wouldn’t Disney do even more for children’s health if they didn’t have channels dedicated to kids? If there are only Soaps and talk shows to watch, kids will be more likely to be out moving and playing. Ha! or on the computer or their video games...

It is all ridiculous. None of this will make kids less fat and more healthy.

The way it changes— parents stop having cable, internet and videos for kids—the kids will get bored REAL fast and be out playing. But no, Idiocracy is MUCH better, let foolish gov’t and big corporations decide how to raise our families!

Parents can help control this if they will take the responsibility and many don’t want to—it is too much work and a bother. The close and tight-knit family is the answer to most all the problems we now suffer.

Heck, this photo is from the 40’s and everybody doesn’t look so fit to me.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/05/27/article-2150561-13508820000005DC-704_964x707.jpg

I think gov’t helped the road to pudginess pushing and offering up formula, as if they know better than what God intended.

[DoughtyOne]

We’ve got some of those containers too. They actually work great, but there is a tendency to leave things in them too long. Har. We’ve had a similar experience.

It’s amazing how long bananas last in them. They do smell a little weird as gases build up, but they stay nice and yellow for quite some time.

[aruanan]

“Junk foods typically contain high levels of calories from sugar or fat with little protein, vitamins or minerals. Common junk foods include salted snack foods, gum, candy, sweet desserts, fried fast food, and carbonated beverages.”

Well, considering that the American diet is in heavy excess of proteins, that's not a problem, especially since the bulk of the macronutrients used for energy by the body are fats>carbohydrates>protein.

Also, the number one nutritional need of your body is for gross energy, the so-called "empty calories." You could have all the vitamins and minerals in the world, but without the "empty calories" you would quickly weaken and die. As far as vitamins and minerals go, you have to go without them--and I mean literally without them--for months to years to develop any sort of vitamin deficiency disease. In our typical U.S. diet, even with a lot of "junk foods," it's virtually impossible to develop a vitamin deficiency disease unless one is an alcoholic or has a resected or diseased small bowel. Vitamin D could be a problem, but eating the "junk foods" won't prevent one from getting vitamin D in milk or as a supplement given by the parents.

So, as I pointed out earlier, the definition of "junk food" is one that is designed by politically-oriented people to move people toward their political ends or by food faddists. Geez, just research the origin and use of the term. And, yes, I am an expert in human nutrition (Ph.D., Human Nutrition/Nutritional Biology).

The biggest threat to kids' (or anyone's) health is not "junk food" but too much food in the context of too little physical activity.

[Buckeye McFrog]

and to be morally consistent I presume Disney is also going to stop serving Coca Cola at all of their theme parks? /sarc

[oh8eleven]

I suspect the reporter covering the story didn't know that baby's clothes are soaked in the stuff.
I researched and found this ...

Are Flame Resistant Baby Pajamas Safe for Babies?

• "Today, it is estimated that less than 1% of all baby pajamas are actually treated to be marketed as flame resistant."
  
  
• "several major children's clothing lines have begun selling 100% cotton pajamas treated with a flame retardant chemical called PROBAN [THPC]."
  "there is speculation that THPC causes genetic abnormalities, as well as damage to the liver and nervous system, and promotes the growth of cancerous tumor."

Note the word "speculation." It may just be like the speculation that immunizations causes autism, etc.

[Conscience of a Conservative]

The biggest threat to kids' (or anyone's) health is not "junk food" but too much food in the context of too little physical activity.

Yes, but "junk food" plays a role in that as well. It is easier to eat too much food (in terms of caloric intake) by eating potato chips and soda, for instance, than it is by eating a balanced meal.

[twister881]

So, will the First Moose and Bathhouse Barry's fascist government go after the giant fried turkey legs Disney serves at their theme parks? Not to mention the fries, extra large sodas, hot dogs, and desserts? ["Homos yes, comfort food, no."]

[C19fan]

They will have to pry those turkey legs from my dead hands. The turkey legs are the best food deals at the parks. One can feed a family.

[GOPJ]

Liberals pushed for the chemicals - so the search has to go further... If we believed liberal ‘scientists’ we’d we living at some weird subsistence level trying to save the earth from global warming...

[An.American.Expatriate]

Executive Order 12345 - Physical Fitness and Sports
February 2, 1982

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States of America, and in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App. I), in order to expand the program for physical fitness and sports and to continue the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall, in carrying out his responsibilities for public health and human services, develop and coordinate a national program for physical fitness and sports. The Secretary shall:

(a) Enlist the active support and assistance of individual citizens, civic groups, private enterprise, voluntary organizations, and others in efforts to promote and improve the fitness of all Americans through regular participation in physical fitness and sports activities.

(b) Initiate programs to inform the general public of the importance of exercise and the link which exists between regular physical activity and such qualities as good health and effective performance.

(c) Strengthen coordination of Federal services and programs relating to physical fitness and sports participation and invite appropriate Federal agencies to participate in an interagency committee to coordinate physical fitness and sports activities of the Federal establishment.

(d) Encourage State and local governments to emphasize the importance of regular physical fitness and sports participation.

(e) Seek to advance the physical fitness of children, youth, adults, and senior citizens by systematically encouraging the development of community recreation, physical fitness, and sports participation programs.

(f) Develop cooperative programs with medical, dental, and other similar professional societies to encourage the implementation of sound physical fitness practices and sports medicine services.

(g) Stimulate and encourage research in the areas of sports medicine, physical fitness, and sports performance.

(h) Assist educational agencies at all levels in developing high quality, innovative health and physical education programs which emphasize the importance of exercise to good health.

(i) Assist recreation agencies and national sports governing bodies at all levels in developing “sports for all” programs which emphasize the value of sports to physical, mental, and emotional fitness.

(j) Assist business, industry, government, and labor organizations in establishing sound physical fitness programs to elevate employee fitness and to reduce the financial and human costs resulting from physical inactivity.

Sec. 2. President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. (a) There is hereby continued the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.
(b) The Council shall be composed of fifteen members appointed by the President. The President shall designate one of the members to be the Chairman.

Sec. 3. Functions of the Council. (a) The Council shall advise the President and the Secretary concerning progress made in carrying out the provisions of this Order and shall recommend to the President and the Secretary, as necessary, actions to accelerate progress.

(b) The Council shall advise the Secretary on matters pertaining to the ways and means of enhancing opportunities for participation in physical fitness and sports activities.

(c) The Council shall also advise the Secretary on State, local, and private actions to extend and improve physical activity programs and services.

Sec. 4. Administrative Provisions Concerning the Council. (a) The Secretary and the Council are authorized to request from any Federal agency such information or assistance deemed necessary to carry out their functions under this Order.

(b) Each Federal agency is authorized, to the extent permitted by law and within available funds, to furnish such information and assistance to the Secretary and the Council as they may request.

(c) The members of the Council shall serve without compensation for their work on the Council. However, members of the Council may receive travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by law for persons serving intermittently in government service (5 U.S.C. 5701-5707).

(d) To the extent permitted by law, the Secretary shall furnish the Council with necessary staff, supplies, facilities, and other administrative services. The expenses of the Council shall be paid from funds available to the Secretary.

(e) The Secretary shall appoint an Executive Director of the Council.

(f) The seal prescribed by Executive Order No. 10830 of July 24, 1959, as amended, shall continue to be the seal of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports continued by this Order.

Sec. 5. General Provisions Concerning the Council.

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other Executive Order, the functions of the President under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App. I), except that of reporting annually to the Congress, shall be performed by the Secretary in accordance with guidelines and procedures established by the Administrator of General Services.

(b) In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended, the Council shall terminate on December 31, 1982, unless sooner extended.

(c) Executive Order No. 11562, as amended, is revoked.

RONALD REAGAN
The White House,
February 2, 1982.

[aruanan]

Yes, but "junk food" plays a role in that as well. It is easier to eat too much food (in terms of caloric intake) by eating potato chips and soda, for instance, than it is by eating a balanced meal.

This is true. The West suffers (ha ha ha) from having a huge amount of highly nutritious food (this includes "junk food," since your body doesn't care about the source of the gross calories it needs) easily available at a relatively cheap cost.

When you put this in the context of recreational eating and eating so quickly that the satiety feedback signals don't have time to downregulate the feeling of hunger before many calories in excess of physiological need are consumed, it's easy to get fat. This is where parental control comes in. Folks who want to cede to the government what they should be doing themselves because they think it will be easier or because they believe that only the government has the necessary expertise are going to be in for very rude surprises by bureaucratic overreach.

There is nothing the government can do to reduce obesity that doesn't have as a consequence a level of control over people's choices and how they spend their money that would make the Soviet Politburo look like Miss June in Romper Room. The government may tell us that only it has the necessary resources to "combat" this problem that "threatens" our nation. We need to tell the government in no uncertain terms that its only role in combat is to protect us against enemies both foreign and domestic and that clever redefinition of whatever they want to control into something covered by the plain language of the Constitution is only going to get them thrown out on their asses.

An obese nation is a measure of a nation's wealth. And, yes, there are health consequences of gaining fat. But there are equally serious health consequences of having so reduced a nutritional intake that one cannot get fat. Look at the Nobel prize lecture by Robert W. Fogel, ECONOMIC GROWTH, POPULATION THEORY, AND PHYSIOLOGY: THE BEARING OF LONG-TERM PROCESSES ON THE MAKING OF ECONOMIC POLICY [this is a pdf] to get an idea of what things used to be like when most people were skinny in earlier centuries, even in 19th century United States.