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Probably not, but too much fat, sugar, and/or salt could make you sick later in life!

Healthy foods, like fruits and vegetables, are not advertised very often. We learned in the last lesson that company’s will spend a LOT of money on advertising! Fruit and vegetable companies cannot afford to pay that much for commercials and so most commercials are for unhealthy foods!

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Advertisements for foods that are high in fat, sugar and salt are shown when YOU are watching the most TV. Advertisers love to show commercials to kids, but we will talk more about that later.

How much time do you think is ok to spend watching TV each day?

STOP AND THINK

 

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