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Unhealthy food on children's TV

More than half of food shown on children's TV programmes is unhealthy. That's according to a study p...
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8:28 AM - 10 Feb 2015



Unhealthy food on children'...

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Unhealthy food on children's TV

TodayFM
TodayFM

8:28 AM - 10 Feb 2015



More than half of food shown on children's TV programmes is unhealthy.

That's according to a study published in the Irish Medical Journal this month.

Researchers found fruit and veg made up only about 10 per cent of what children were watching on tv.

Clodagh OÂ’Gorman is professor of paediatrics at the University of Limerick and one of the authors of the study - she says they went into great detail of the way food is presented on tv:



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