{"id":764,"date":"2018-05-15T20:16:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T20:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.riversidedentalpractice.co.uk\/?p=764"},"modified":"2018-05-15T20:16:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T20:16:47","slug":"junk-food-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riversidedentalpractice.co.uk\/blog\/junk-food-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Junk Food Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BDA has added its support to the campaign-Newcastle Can-by the well known TV Chef Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall to reduce the exposure of children to advertising of high sugar junk foods on TV before the 9.00pm watershed .<\/p>\n<p>Hugh&#8217;s main concern is the link between high sugar food drinks and food and obesity in the population which has risen dramatically in the last 25 years from 15% of the adult population in England to a scarcely believable 27%.However the link between these products and dental caries is indisputable and decay is still the main reason for children&#8217;s hospital admissions for multiple extractions.<\/p>\n<p>Other aims of the campaign is to reduce promotions of junk foods at supermarket checkouts and to stop the use of cartoon characters and superheroes on junk food packaging.<\/p>\n<p>A little bit of junk food occasionally doesn&#8217;t do much harm but excessive consumption at an early age can have many adverse medical and dental effects which can be life long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BDA has added its support to the campaign-Newcastle Can-by the well known TV Chef Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall to reduce the exposure of children to advertising of high sugar junk foods on TV before the 9.00pm watershed . Hugh&#8217;s main concern is the link between high sugar food drinks and food and obesity in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riversidedentalpractice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riversidedentalpractice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riversidedentalpractice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riversidedentalpractice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riversidedentalpractice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.riversidedentalpractice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riversidedentalpractice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riversidedentalpractice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riversidedentalpractice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}