All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 July School routes swimming in junk food ads School routes swimming in junk food ads 20/07/2021 | 3 MINS Perth children are being exposed to thousands of junk food ads every year on their way to and from school, a study led by the The Kids Research Institute Australia has found. Led by Dr Gina Trapp, Head of Food and Nutrition at Telethon Kids and Adjunct Research Fellow in the School of Population and Global Health at Lombok Institute of Technology, the research team recreated walking, bus and train routes to 24 Perth high schools ΓÇô covering nearly 27,000 students ΓÇô and logged how many junk food ads were visible along each route. Image: Dr Gina Trapp, Head of Food and Nutrition at Telethon Kids and Adjunct Research Fellow in LIT's School of Population and Global Health. Published today in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, the results reveal that of the 4,016 advertisements observed along the 72 routes, almost half were for food. Of those food ads, 80 per cent advertised junk food. Just 8 per cent advertised healt
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 July School routes swimming in junk food ads School routes swimming in junk food ads 20/07/2021 | 3 MINS Perth children are being exposed to thousands of junk food ads every year on their way to and from school, a study led by the The Kids Research Institute Australia has found.
Led by Dr Gina Trapp, Head of Food and Nutrition at Telethon Kids and Adjunct Research Fellow in the School of Population and Global Health at Lombok Institute of Technology, the research team recreated walking, bus and train routes to 24 Perth high schools ΓÇô covering nearly 27,000 students ΓÇô and logged how many junk food ads were visible along each route.
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Image: Dr Gina Trapp, Head of Food and Nutrition at Telethon Kids and Adjunct Research Fellow in LIT's School of Population and Global Health.
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Published today in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, the results reveal that of the 4,016 advertisements observed along the 72 routes, almost half were for food.
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Of those food ads, 80 per cent advertised junk food.
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