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Spielberg's latest movie "The Post" (short for the Washington Post) is on in a few movie theaters. As I told you on Pronote, if you have the opportunity to watch it this weekend or Monday or Tuesday, it will be great, as we will be mentioning The Pentagon Papers and the story behind the very important role played by the press.

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BBC News (breaking news, video, audio and feature stories)

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Homework Assignment for Tuesday, March 27th

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Homework Assignment for Tuesday, March 27th

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Browse the news outlets (ABC News, CNN, CBS, NBC, BBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Time, The Guardian... and find a piece of news then get ready to tell your classmates about it: source, main information, and what caught your attention (headline (title), pictures, the subject)).

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NEW DELHI - Rahul Verma's son was born gravely ill with digestive problems, but over years of visits to the boy's endocrinologist, Mr. Verma saw the doctor grow increasingly alarmed about a different problem, one threatening healthy children. Junk food, the doctor warned, was especially dangerous to Indians, who are far more prone to diabetes than people from other parts of the world.

One day in the doctor's waiting room, Mr. Verma noticed a girl who had gotten fat by compulsively eating potato chips. He decided he had to do something.

"On one side you have children like my son, who are born with problems," said Mr. Verma, "and on the other side you have children who are healthy and everything is fine and you are damaging them giving them unhealthy food."

Mr. Verma, who had no legal training, sat late into the nights with his wife, Tullika, drafting a petition in their tiny apartment, which was bedecked with fairy lights and pictures of the god Ganesh, who is believed to overcome all obstacles. He filed the public interest lawsuit in the Delhi High Court in 2010, seeking a ban on the sale of junk food and soft drinks in and around schools across India.

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The case has propelled sweeping, court-ordered regulations of the food industry to the doorstep of the Indian government, where they have languished. They have outsize importance in India, population 1.3 billion, because its people are far more likely to develop diabetes - which can lead to heart disease, kidney failure, blindness and amputations - as they gain weight than people from other regions, according to health experts.

Since 1990, the percent of children and adults in India who are overweight or obese has almost tripled to 18.8 percent from 6.4 percent, according to data from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.

The International Diabetes Federation projects that the number of Indians with diabetes will soar to 123 million by 2040 as diets rich in carbohydrates and fat spread to less affluent rural areas.

"We are sitting on a volcano," said Dr. Anoop Misra, chairman of a diabetes hospital at Fortis Healthcare, one of India's biggest private hospital chains.

In the years since the court ordered the government to develop guidelines to regulate junk food, the case has encountered ferocious opposition from the All India Food Processors Association, which counts Coca-Cola India, PepsiCo India and Nestlé India as members, as well as hundreds of other companies.

Subodh Jindal, the president of the association, said in an interview that junk food was unfairly blamed for diabetes and obesity. It was overeating, not the food itself, that has caused the problem, he said, asking, "Do you eat two pizzas a day or two pizzas a week?"

The government this year took a significant step that public health experts believe will help combat the rise of obesity in the world's second most populous country. It partially implemented a tax on sugar sweetened beverages, instituting a 40 percent tax on such drinks that are carbonated, though not on juices made with added sugars that many children drink.

But so far, the regulations to ban sales near schools sought by the court in Mr. Verma's case have led to naught.

"At such a slow pace, we will all be sick and diseased by the time any changes come in," said Shweta Khandelwal, a nutritionist at the Public Health Foundation of India.

Jagat Prakash Nadda, India's minister of health and family welfare, did not respond to repeated requests for comment, but Pawan Agarwal, chief executive of the Food Safety Standards Authority of India, the body in the ministry responsible for such regulations, insisted that the government's efforts have been sincere.

"This may appear to be typical of India. When you have an issue, you set up so many committees and confuse the whole issue," he said. But he insisted: "People are concerned. They want to do something about it. Therefore everyone is setting up committees."

As the case has played out on Twitter and in newspapers, students carrying "Junk Food Rest in Peace" posters have rallied, seeking to make obesity an issue in a country where feeding the hungry has been a national obsession. Some schools have voluntarily stopped serving junk food.

The court battle has unfolded in a grand, wood-paneled courtroom here in the nation's capital. Mr. Verma, 42, quit his job as a corporate marketing executive after his son's birth in 2006 and set up a foundation in 2007 to help families like his with sick children. An emotional man, he sometimes wept in frustration with the government's foot dragging. At one point, doubting his decision to venture into India's overburdened legal system, the lanky, round-faced Mr. Verma, who wears big square glasses, begged the judge to let him withdraw the petition.

"Nothing is happening. I've wasted my time," he said, tears sliding down his face, as he bemoaned getting sidetracked from his foundation's mission of helping poor, sick children at the giant public hospital where his son had been treated. "I could have helped hundreds of kids."

But Chief Justice Dipak Misra refused to let Mr. Verma take back his lawsuit. Instead, spotting a senior advocate, Neeraj Kishan Kaul, at the back of the crowded courtroom, the judge ordered him to act as the pro bono lawyer for Mr. Verma's case.

As Mr. Kaul, 54, approached the bench, he recalled, he joked to the judge, "You've got the wrong guy. I like junk food."

An Increased Risk

Researchers around the world began noticing that Indian immigrants were more prone to diabetes in the 1970s.

"But nobody knew why," said Dr. Viswanathan Mohan, a physician and researcher who owns several dozen diabetes centers in India.

Scientists searched for genes that predisposed Indians to diabetes, but didn't find them. Instead, a growing body of research suggests that Indians' body type - one that is smaller but with more abdominal fat - may be responsible.

Being born to a malnourished woman - a common phenomenon in India - may also increase the odds of developing diabetes. Clues to this pattern emerged from other parts of the world. Researchers studied the health of babies born during the Dutch famine in 1944-45. They found that the babies had a higher likelihood of impaired glucose tolerance as adults, which led to higher rates of diabetes.

Dr. Chittaranjan Yajnik, a diabetes specialist, and Barry Popkin, a professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina, are among the researchers exploring a theory that Indians evolved what Dr. Yajnik has called "a thin-fat" body type over millenniums as a way to survive famines when monsoons failed.

Dr. Yajnik, who is from Pune, a city in western India, noticed during his medical training in Britain in the 1980s that he had higher levels of fat and hormones related to diabetes than European doctors even though he appeared thinner.

That set Dr. Yajnik, now head of diabetes at KEM Hospital Research Center in Pune, on a quest to understand if this was generally true for Indians - and if so, why.

In the 1990s, he began following the pregnancies of hundreds of women in villages outside Pune and tested their offspring as they grew up.

Compared with infants in Britain, Indian newborns were about 1.5 pounds lighter but had more abdominal fat and higher levels of certain hormones in their cord blood, he found, suggesting a predisposition to diabetes.

Dr. Yajnik said he believes Indians' susceptibility to diabetes may have emerged as their diets changed with rising affluence - and that their bodies, attuned to scarcity, couldn't handle an overload of food.

As of last year, some 199 million adults in India were overweight or obese according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Since 1990, the percentage of India's adult population with diabetes has surged to 7.7 percent - some 63 million people - from 5.5 percent.

Although cases of obesity and being overweight are far less prevalent in India (24 percent last year) than in Canada (about 60 percent), for example, adults there are just as likely to develop diabetes as in Canada, a New York Times analysis of data from the institute found.

Many of the countries where diabetes is more common relative to obesity are in South Asia, the Times analysis found.

In the years since Mr. Verma filed his suit, consumption of junk food has risen sharply across India. Sales of packaged foods have increased 138 percent; fast food 83 percent; and carbonated drinks 58 percent, according to Euromonitor International, the market research firm.

Coca-Cola Company's chief executive, James Quincey, in an interview with Indian news media earlier this year, said that he expected the Indian market to eventually become the company's third largest in sales, up from sixth.

Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have announced plans to invest billions of dollars in the Indian market. They have also said they plan to increase their offerings of drinks with less sugar and more fruit.

Sanjay Khajuria, a Nestlé India spokesman, said the food processors association, which opposed Mr. Verma's case, had "taken into account inputs received by the association from its members," and declined further comment on the case. He also noted that the company has joined other companies in India to restrict advertising directed at children under 12 to products with a certain level of nutrients.

A Coca-Cola spokesman referred questions on the lawsuit to the food association. PepsiCo India's vice president of sales, Harsh K. Rai, also declined to comment on the lawsuit. He said the company has stopped advertising to children 12 and under.

An Unexpected Calling

Becoming a crusader against junk food was far from Mr. Verma's mind as he and his wife battled to save their son, Uday, who was born with parts of his digestive system missing.

The boy endured nine surgeries, but emerged thriving. His parents decided they wanted to help families facing similar challenges and formed the Uday Foundation. Mr. Verma ran it, while his wife supported the family on her $1,000-a-month salary as an administrator in the government education system.

After seeing the obese girl in the doctor's waiting room, Mr. Verma couldn't shake his concern about junk food. He also had a worry closer to home: his daughter, Lavanya, sometimes bought burgers at school instead of eating the rice and lentils her mother sent from home.

First the couple approached state officials about banning junk food in New Delhi schools - to no avail.

Then in 2010 he filed the lawsuit, basing his case on the constitutional authority of courts to intervene to protect citizens' right to life.

In 2011, the presiding judge asked the national government "to take concrete and effective steps to ensure that the sale and supply of junk food in and around schools is banned."

The food industry hired some of the country's most politically-connected lawyers to fight the case, including Mukul Rohatgi, the former additional solicitor general; Abhishek Manu Singhvi, who has been a member of Parliament and spokesman for the Congress Party, which has ruled India for most of its post-independence history; and Kapil Sibal, the three-time president of the Supreme Court Bar Association who had served as a senior minister in the Congress-led government.

The hearings dragged on. Finally, in 2014, the working group of an expert committee picked by the food authority recommended that sales of potato chips, sugar sweetened beverages, ready-to-eat noodles and chocolates be banned within 500 yards of schools.

The food association strenuously objected. D. V. Malhan, its executive secretary, said in an interview that there are so many schools that the proposed sales ban would have hurt the industry badly.

In early 2015, the food authority in the health ministry finally recommended regulations to the court, including some limitations on the sale of junk food around schools. The judge ordered the recommendations carried out within three months. Instead, the food authority appointed yet another committee.

Last year, at a meeting in New Delhi, that committee proposed taxing junk food, prohibiting advertising of it during children's television shows and requiring consumer labeling of processed food.

Mr. Malhan, of the food association, denounced the report for not soliciting industry input earlier. Shouting, he said the guidelines were unacceptable.

It has been nearly two years since that contentious meeting.

Mr. Agarwal, chief executive of the food authority, insisted his agency is finally ready to start adopting new rules early next year for labeling healthy food with a green light and those high in fat, sugar and salt with a red light.

But he said taxing junk food and banning it around schools were long term goals.

"There is no point in confronting industry on these issues," he said.

Many More Patients

As the government debates junk food policy, doctors here say that over the past 20 years they have seen their offices packed with increasingly younger diabetic patients.

Last month, Sapna Dhingra, 49, called Dr. Rommel Tickoo, a New Delhi internist, complaining of leg pain. He sent her for a blood test and texted her the next day: "Come over. You've got diabetes." She reeled in shock. Her mother is also diabetic, but got the disease in her 60s.

Now diabetes is stalking her husband and daughter, who are what Dr. Yajnik would call "thin-fat."

Her husband, Hardesh, 54, learned a few months ago that his high blood sugar put him on the borderline of being diabetic. He immediately started taking daily walks, but Delhi's dangerous air pollution prompted Dr. Tickoo to advise him to stop.

A blood test revealed that the couple's daughter, Ria, 22, also had elevated blood sugar. She is not overweight, either, although she gained a few pounds recently after a knee injury interrupted her exercise routine.

Dr. Tickoo advised Ria to immediately change her diet but she said it was hard to resist temptation. When she is not studying at the Pearl Academy of Fashion, where she is in her final year, she hangs out in malls crammed with fast food restaurants serving pizza, burgers, fried chicken and oily Indian entrees.

She has switched from milkshakes to smoothies made with fresh fruit, but confesses her motive is not her health. The question for her and her friends: "Are we going to fit in our leggings or not?"

The Future of the Fight

At lunchtime one recent day, people on crutches and with tubes hanging out of their noses gathered in a crowd outside the hospital where Mr. Verma's son was treated. A white van pulled up and they jostled to the front of the line for heaping bowls of khichdi, an Indian favorite of rice, lentils and vegetables.

Mr. Verma's foundation - which now has more than 700,000 Twitter followers - serves these meals three days a week to about 1,000 patients.

At his office, he reveled in his David versus Goliath battle to regulate junk food. He was emphatic that someone needs to continue the fight; he is just not sure that someone is him. He is convinced the unending legal battle gave him high blood pressure.

His former partner on the case, the pro bono lawyer Mr. Kaul, said India needs more than Mr. Verma to make change happen.

Public interest lawsuits have helped citizens press for government action and win significant victories on air pollution, for example.

But that happened after outrage about filthy air had mounted. Mr. Kaul said the government will only move on junk food once public pressure builds.

"You need a movement to fight the inertia of the system," he said, sipping a can of Coke.

Audrey Carlsen contributed reporting from New York, and Matt Richtel from San Francisco.

A version of this article appears in print on , on Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: A Father Sues to Curb Junk Food as Diabetes Spreads in India. Order Reprints | Today's Paper | Subscribe

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One Man's Stand Against Junk Food as Diabetes Climbs Across India

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Junk food is very very very addictive and people can become obese. It's very dangerous and unhealthy so we have to be cautious !!

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The efforts food manufacturers go to in order to hide added sugar from you.

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Breaking bad eating habits. 9 habits and how to break them

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Breaking bad eating habits. 9 habits and how to break them

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Breaking Bad Eating Habits - 9 habits & how to break them

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Let's kick those habits to the curb - no portable lab necessary!

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Good Video? Like/Fav & Share!! Over 4,000 Calories of Root Beer Float Heaven! There are very few things on this planet than when Root Beer and Vanilla Ice Cream are put together. Amiright? ENJOY!!! Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/megatoad Twitter - @mattstonie Instagram - http://instagram.com/matt_stonie Megatoad Tee's - http://mattstonie.bigcartel.com/ NEW PO BOX!!

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Sugar addiction is just as bad as the consumption of junk food. Those two things are bad but junk food and sugar in correct amounts are not necessarily bad. The fact that things are bad is the exaggeration of the consumption of both, like eating sugar poured into the water, or eating a daily menu of a fast food.

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Learn more on how to lead a healthier life, tackle obesity and fight against this epidemic.

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Tackling Obesity | Jamie's Food Revolution | Jamie Oliver

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This is not okay. Join the #FoodRevolution. Lets change this and create a better future for our kids.

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Interview with Jamie Oliver (2010). Audio and transcript :-) You can stream or download!
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Some revolutions start on a picket line - Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution starts on the lunch line. The celebrity chef's new TV show confronts America's obesity epidemic in the least healthy part of the country. Host Jeff Young talks with Oliver about eating well as a matter of life and death.

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In its biggest menu revolution in 30 years, the restaurant chain will introduce the grilled chicken salad at 1,235 of its branches with a choice of Caesar dressing, or the lighter option of a drizzle of balsamic.

However, anyone hoping the salad option will help battle the bulge should read the nutritional information on the McDonald's website.

It shows that ditching the burger for a salad is no good for slimmers.

For with dressing and croutons it contains 425 calories and 21.4g of fat, compared with the 253 calories and 7.7g of fat in the standard burger.

Adding a portion of fries to your burger brings the calorie count to 459 - still less fatty than the salad at 16.7g. Super-sized portions ditched

Last month McDonald's announced it will ditch its super-size portion of fries and soft drinks at British outlets by the end of the year, amid a backlash against firms blamed for a an "obesity epidemic".

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Junk food is really good, but when you get addicted it becomes dangerous.
We can die of obesity and even for ourselves, when we look in a mirror and we see how big we are because of junk food, it hurts our hearts.
So yes it's good, but we must think about the consequences that it causes.
We must stop eating in fast food  restaurants or eating only fatty foods or super sweet.
By doing this we will take care of ourselves, will take care of others and so obesity will no longer be a problem.
We can occasionally treat ourselves and eat in fast food joints, that's fine. but not every day.

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"Fed up" with sugar: Katie Couric's 10-day challenge

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"Fed up" with sugar: Katie Couric's 10-day challenge

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'Fed Up' With Sugar: Katie Couric's 10-Day Challenge

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New documentary "Fed Up" explorers America's obsession with added sugar in foods.

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University of California Television (UCTV)

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Learn the Facts about Sugar - How Sugar Impacts your Health

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The first 5mn of the documentary.

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Food waste: How much food do supermarkets throw away? (CBC Marketplace)

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Testing chicken at some fast food restaurants:McDonald's, Subway, Wendy's...

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Testing chicken at some fast food restaurants:McDonald's, Subway, Wendy's...

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Fast food chicken: Testing Subway, McDonald's, A&W, Wendy's & Tim Hortons (CBC Marketplace)

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We test grilled chicken sandwiches from Subway, McDonald's, A&W, Wendy's and Tim Hortons to find out how much chicken is in that chicken.

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A scientific report

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Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on new research showing that beyond weight gain, sugar can take a serious toll on your health, worsening conditions ranging from heart disease to cancer.

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Behind the scene at a McDonald's photo shoot.

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Here's an article that focuses on how food packaging plays a big part in triggering brain processes that influence our food choices - similar to the brain processes that get us stuck on addictive behaviours.

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Here's an article that focuses on how food packaging plays a big part in triggering brain processes that influence our food choices - similar to the brain processes that get us stuck on addictive behaviours.

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Food is important for our survival, which is why all living beings have developed an urge for high energy foods, like those high in sugar and fat. Historically, this hadn't been an issue, as energy dense foods weren't always as available as they are today.

But in modern societies, we not only have easy access to cheap, high-energy food, we also have marketing companies pushing them at us. Food packaging plays a big part in triggering brain processes that influence our food choices - similar brain processes that get us stuck on addictive behaviours.

How our brain works in addiction

Some people who eat too much high-calorie food show similar behavioural patterns to those with addictions. An important behavioural component of addiction is a longing to experience the drug again and again, while in many cases, regretting that behaviour. This distinction between wanting something but not necessarily liking it is shown in many studies.

In the 1950s, two Canadian physiologists ran experiments with electrodes implanted in specific brain regions of rats. The rats were then given the opportunity to stimulate these brain regions, later termed "reward centres", by pressing a button. Once they started pressing the stimulation button, they stopped doing anything else, which was the first hint of a strong behavioural reinforcing mechanism.

Since then, researchers have shown that this reward centre of the brain - termed the "ventral striatum" - is also involved in substance addiction, such as to heroin or cocaine. Just showing people drug-related pictures led to a strong activity in the parts of the brain related to craving for the drugs.

How our brain responds to junk foods

With methods like functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which allows us to measure brain activity in healthy volunteers, researchers have started to investigate processes underlying how we eat and view foods.

Such studies robustly show that images of high caloric foods, like chocolate bars or cakes, lead to a stronger activity in the reward areas of the brain, in contrast to apples or salads.

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Longitudinal studies, which follow people over a period of time, have shown that the stronger the reaction in the brain's reward areas when confronted with these foods, the more weight people will gain over the next year.

These insights have made scientists think about how they could intervene to make people less reactive to foods high in calories. One important mechanism, which was researched by a team in California, is that of self-control.

Volunteers were able to regulate the reward-related brain activity towards junk food. While in an MRI machine, they were instructed to focus on health attributes while making choices for healthier food options. When doing so, another region of the brain strongly involved in self-control (dorsolateral prefrontal cortex) was more active and regulated the spontaneous rewarding brain activity.

The main problem, though, is that people are not capable of applying self-control over longer periods.

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The impact of marketing

We may think our eating decisions are mainly driven by rational factors such as weighing up the different attributes of products - for example, prices and content. But research shows we are strongly influenced by environmental factors that nudge us into making different decisions.

Designs of packages, brands or claims on food products also influence how we value and consume them. These influences are of course extensively used by companies to affect consumers' choices.

Companies make use of bright colours, and well-known characters from movies or other celebrities to distinguish their products from others. These visual properties act as signals that influence the way we value products and make people more likely to be attracted to certain items over others.

Some studies in children show food-directed commercials influence the amount of calories they consume, with this effect especially pronounced in overweight children.

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But the fact contextual factors play a strong role in the perception of foods can also be used to help consumers in their choices.

We conducted a study in school children where we presented the same cereals in different packages. One of these was especially designed to be more appealing to children - we created cartoon characters and placed them on the package.

The same cereal not only tasted better when it was in the more appealing package, but children were also willing to make more effort to receive it (by more strongly pressing on a specially designed hand lever).

This influence of marketing on the actual taste experience has also been referred to as the marketing placebo effect. Expectations consumers may have about a known brand or a nice design can lead to actual differences in taste and consumption patterns, probably by acting on the human reward circuitry and raising the subjective pleasure of the taste experience.

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Junk food packaging hijacks the same brain processes as drug and alcohol addiction

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Let's learn about the secret ingredient lurking in our food!

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Let's learn about the secret ingredient lurking in our food!

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Remember to write your name when you post something ;-)

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Remember to write your name when you post something ;-)

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JUST REMENBER
in 20 seconds
That Junk food will be gone
The taste will be over
And all that will be left is
REGRET
Just like last time!!

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A short summary proposed by the students as their first post! :-)

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A short summary proposed by the students as their first post! :-)

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Sugar can become dangerous if you over consume it.
It could create an addiction.
If you lose control, you can become addicted and be affected by obesity and diabetes
Sugar is eight times more addictive than cocaine, maybe due to its flavor.

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Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, US trailer.

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Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, US trailer.

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Press Article: Advantages and Disadvantages of Healthy Food Versus Junk Food, Livestrong.com, October 3rd, 2017

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Press Article: Advantages and Disadvantages of Healthy Food Versus Junk Food, Livestrong.com, October 3rd, 2017

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Marketing strategies and deceptive advertising behind junk food addiction?!

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Here is the video extract from ABC News, studied in class. It is a TV report dating back to 2010. It deals with the danger of obesity.

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Jamie Oliver's Awareness Campaign targeting Junk Food and Sugar Addiction 

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A possible cause for junk food addiction?

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A possible cause for junk food addiction?

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