Kids see 25 million of those ads a year on their top 10 favourite websites, research commission by the group suggests. Given how the marketing influences kids' preferences and choices, their family relationships and their health, the group calls for strong restrictions on the commercial marketing of food and drinks to children and youth. In September 2016, Senator Nancy Greene Raine introduced an act to prohibit such marketing to children under the age of 13. "Eventually, the kids wear down the parents," Warshawski said in an interview. How the food and beverage industry is marketing our children and youth to death."

Source: CBC News February 01, 2017 05:02 UTC