to think food adverts on the TV are poisonous

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every night when I sit down to watch telly there are adverts for Just Eat, KFC etc. Purely designed to make us order a takeaway.

I hate this and think it should be regulated in the same way that cigarettes and alcohol are.

And wtf is it with Trivento wines advertising 'a splash of the bold' in conjunction with certain programmes.

Just no!

Also see gogglebox where every person on is is eating in front of the TV. Snacks, or dinner or cakes.

I have enough trouble curbing my desire to eat without all this!

Get sky -record everything and speed through the ads

Those people saying 'It's your problem, nobody else's' are totally wrong. It's society's problem. Do you think cigarette adverts should still be allowed, on the grounds that people should just have the willpower not to smoke? It's arguably a lot easier not to smoke than it is not to eat junk food.

Most people don't have the willpower to resist their dominant food environment 24/7. It makes sense for the government to do things to make it easier for them to eat more healthily with a bit less need for willpower.

Ok but you can say the same about smoking and the state does everything it can to prevent it.

@Fairislefandango your argument falls short because eating a takeaway or smoking aren’t comparable.
Takeaways can absolutely be eaten in moderation and as part of a healthy diet, it depends entirely on the order and how often someone has it. You can have a semi healthy order or a very indulgent unhealthy order from the same place.
You can’t have a healthy cigarette.
Then there’s the main issue with smoking that by doing it you are directly impacting the health of those around you, which isn’t the same if someone chooses to have a burger on a Friday night.

Again ..buying fags is ILLEGAL under 18 so advertising them to everyone ie TV is completely different to advertising legitimate substances.. Make fast food illegal for children to buy and then you’d have a point.

Also cigarettes have NO benefits in terms of the human body. Fast food might be mostly crap but it is supplying fuel in some form even a very poor one.

@Fairislefandango your argument falls short because eating a takeaway or smoking aren’t comparable.
Takeaways can absolutely be eaten in moderation and as part of a healthy diet, it depends entirely on the order and how often someone has it. You can have a semi healthy order or a very indulgent unhealthy order from the same place.
You can’t have a healthy cigarette.

Yes, that is all true,but I don't think it disagrees with my point at all!

Then there’s the main issue with smoking that by doing it you are directly impacting the health of those around you, which isn’t the same if someone chooses to have a burger on a Friday night.

You may regard that as the main issue with smoking, but I don't think it was the main cause of the ban on smoking adverts, was it? The health warnings about smoking are mostly related to the effect on the smoker.

Again ..buying fags is ILLEGAL under 18 so advertising them to everyone ie TV is completely different to advertising legitimate substances.. Make fast food illegal for children to buy and then you’d have a point.

And yet alcohol is still advertised to everyone on tv.

Also cigarettes have NO benefits in terms of the human body. Fast food might be mostly crap but it is supplying fuel in some form even a very poor one.

That was part of my point. The reason it's so hard to quit junk food is that you don't need cigarettes but you do need food. And junk food is cheap, legal, available everywhere, and engineered to be super-palatable and verging on addictive. That's precisely why the government need to take action. Not to ban it, but to make food companies behave more responsibly.

I don't see the junk food adverts on TV as I use the ad break as an opportunity to go out for a cigarette 😄

And the stupid perfume ones!

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It’s not really about one person getting a takeaway, it’s about the normalisation of apps like just eat, promoting the constant eating of takeout at every occasion, with no discussion of the harms it can do. It’s the normalisation aspect that concerns me- the constant barrage of advertising to convince people that takeaway isn’t a treat or an indulgence, it’s just a normal thing to have every night.

@IMustDoMoreExercise you're making a sweeping generalization there! Diabetes isn't caused by junk food. Type 1 is an autoimmune condition which has nothing to do with diet. The causes of type 2 include obesity (to which junk food may be a contributing factor) but there are many other causes and you can live like a monk and still get it. Equally, you can eat junk food and be thin.

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Absolutely but PP were linking fast food and cigarettes not alcohol.

A small glass of red wine a night is proven to be even better than being tee total for health. A delivered burger might be shit food but where do you stop? A burger you grill yourself? Cheese ? Cakes and biscuits?

Turn the TV off or skip the adverts.

@Gpnever the constant barrage of advertising to convince people that takeaway isn’t a treat or an indulgence, it’s just a normal thing to have every night.

You’re wildly exaggerating though, you would be hard pressed to find even 1 single person who has a takeaway every night or who thinks it’s remotely to have 1 every night.

Just don't buy takeaways or Just Eat etc

What the hell is this?

A small glass of red wine a night is proven to be even better than being tee total for health.

I'm pretty sure that advice is outdated and now proven to be wrong.

Theyre the only adverts that have ever worked on me!

I'm pretty sure that advice is outdated and now proven to be wrong.

It seems to go in cycles. I think it’s actually beneficial this week.

You’re wildly exaggerating though, you would be hard pressed to find even 1 single person who has a takeaway every night or who thinks it’s remotely to have 1 every night.

Some surveys put the percentage of people eating daily takeaway as high as 11%

Feel free to share.

This survey of over 12,000 people across all age demographics suggests it’s significantly less than that.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1130672/frequency-of-eating-takeaway-food-uk/

https://business.yougov.com/content/42755-global-how-often-are-consumers-ordering-takeaway

Yougov also says it’s 1% who have some form of takeaway every day. That’s obviously a massive minority.

I wonder if some considered things like sandwich etc from asda ubered for lunh at work as takeaway. Or work lunches when they don't bring their own.
Sandwich from local deli