Article: TV junk food ads feeding child obesity

The first study of child health in Queensland in more than a decade shows one-in-five children are overweight or obese.

The rates are slightly lower than in New South Wales and Western Australia, but Queensland Health Minister Stephen Robertson says the Commonwealth should act.

The university study also found half the state's children ate less than one serve of vegetables a day, while fewer than one-in-six boys and one-in-15 girls did an hour of daily moderate physical activity.

Health Minister Stephen Robertson says it is further proof of the need for the Federal Government to limit TV junk food advertising.

"We banned tobacco advertising years ago - why? Because advertising encourages people to smoke," he said.

"Why not apply that same rationale, that same commonsense, to the advertising of junk food during the hours when kids are most likely to be watching it."

http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/12/1976452.htm