Talking Points: The Big, Fat American Kid Crisis . . . - New York Times

Talking Points: The Big, Fat American Kid Crisis . . . - New York Times: "So, kid's television is a Pinocchio's Land of Toys — a sugary world where all the candy one can eat eventually turns children into junk-food donkeys. Extra-large donkeys. The Center for Science in the Public Interest recently announced plans to file a lawsuit in Massachusetts against the Kellogg Company and Viacom (which owns Nickelodeon) after determining that 88 percent of the ads on children's television were for cookies, pastries, sugary cereals, candy and other junk food. The center, allied with a Boston-based group called Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, argues that the advertising aimed at toddlers as young as two years old is 'creepy' and 'predatory.'"