NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - television coverage of obesity in children is less likely than print media on the role of food and beverage industry, according to a new report in the journal Pediatrics.
On the other hand, mention TV networks becoming more common solutions on the personal level, such as exercise and healthy food to eat.
This is reference researchers say, because individual ways to combat obesity instead of focusing on the underlying spotlighting the public attention from necessary changes can pull social topics.
"If we think the answer to the solution of the problem about people change their behavior is then no role for policy change is," said Colleen Barry of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of public health in Baltimore, Maryland, who worked on the study.
According to the US Centers for disease control and prevention obesity has tripled over the last three decades to reach close to 20 percent in 2008.
With their colleagues, Barry analyzed a sample of 806 messages, which ran from 2000 to 2009 in U.S. magazines and newspapers and TV networks.
The team found that some sort of solution to the problem of obesity is mentioned almost all of the stories. About two-thirds of the TV news mentioned diet or exercise changes, while newspapers to 52 percent of the time and magazines 58 percent of the time act.
On the other hand, solutions mentioned TV networks at the system level-such as building playgrounds or ensure that healthy food in poor Vierteln--rare than print media are available.
Only 18 percent pointed time from more than 30 percent in newspapers and magazines in particular networks to possible changes in the food and drinks industry.
Barry said the reasons for this are unclear, but industry show said could play a role in the television.
"TV news more dollars from the food and beverage industry based on advertising, so I think that some influence make available could," said Reuters Health.
According to data from Nielsen Company were about 15 percent of the show on TV in 2008, compared with only two percent view paid in newspapers of the food industry.
Another possible explanation for the different reporting is that systems-based solutions to abstract and therefore heavier might be said to address in a visual medium Barry.
The researchers also found that childhood of obesity clearly had dropped coverage since 2007, although still plaguing the extra weight of our society.
"It is a serious health problem, and despite efforts to change people's behavior, childhood obesity shows no signs a mutate", Barry said.
Source: http://bit.ly/iidweQ Pediatrics
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