Blog # 13
                                                     " Mom, Dad, buy the Broccoli"

                     In the article " Mom, Dad, Buy the Broccoli" by " The New York Times", the author is mention the importance of food industry stopping promote the comercial of food and drink with empty calories. Many companies already started cutting the advertisement of junk food like "McDonald's" and now their goal is to decrease that number in half of advertisement for younger children. Also the advertisement in elementary school and in public places to entertain children will not have comercial any more.
                     After all these companies started to limited the use of beloved cartoons or movie characters to promote junk food, the children have less access to all these information, as a result they don't ask the parents to buy them. The children food and beverages should have a decent and transparent guidelines helping them to choose a heathy food. Once the children are individualy informed about what to eat they become less obese and more assets.
                    I have two kids one in elementary and one in high school and in both schools they have these coca-cola and snack machines and for me these are a big issue because everyday they want money to buy this crap. Both of them know the importance of eatting healthy foods, but the temptation is there everyday in front of there eyes. After school when they get home i give them fruits to compensate the damage caused by chips and candys.
                    I particulary know many parents that buy broccoli and many others vegetables.In my life at like many others parents I cooked with healthy ingredients that helps them have good food habits.Today parents live in a battle against all these comercials about junk food and it is not easy to mantain our kids in good shape.
                    In conclusion, I believe if the Center for Science in the Public Interest put the effort for a real change of advertisements, we could easily see the difference. American children under twelve could change their habits and starting eating healthy, as a result they should have less sugar or fat in their body providing a good body condition to have a better behavior.