It is Time to Obligate the Warning Messages on Junk Food Packages and Advertisements: A Step to live long

Authors: Ahmed Z* and Farjana Y

DOI: 10.23880/doij-16000149

Volume 2, Issue 2

Abstract

Business is always profitable when it is done with our inalienable basic needs- food, clothing, shelter, education and healthcare. To survive and thrive in huge competition, every company uses several promotional tools. For successful marketing of a product, four promotional tools are typically used- advertisement, sales promotion, public relation and direct marketing. The expenditure of food industry, whose marketing policy targets children and teenagers, is more than $1.6 billion per year for advertisement alone [1]. Nearly all foods featured in advertisements targeted towards young people are junk foods and several researches suggest that food advertising have substantial impact on dietary habit of the young, particularly on increased consumption of snacks, fast foods and sweetened beverages and hence elevated increase in body mass index (BMI).

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