Obesity seems to have hit an all time high among Hispanic children and experts are looking at the type of information children are fed via frequent advertisements about food.
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Statistics found that 39 percent of Hispanic youth are overweight as against only 28 percent of their non-Hispanic counterparts. Extra weight is a cause of many health problems and studies have pointed out that Hispanics carry an elevated risk for developing Type 2 diabetes.
Most advertisements portrayed both fast food and cereal commercials and Hispanic youths viewing English-speaking programme got to view nearly 850 fast food commercials and about 575 ads publicizing pushing breakfast cereal.
Source-Medindia