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Mexican Lawmakers Worried About Rising Obesity Rates
A recent study by researchers at Stanford University in California showed that Mexico has the greatest number of junk-food ads per hour on television, plus worrying indices of infant obesity and with no regulation at all applied to advertising for children.
That conclusion coincides with the data from the government's national nutrition survey, which says that 26 percent of children between 5 and 11 suffer from obesity, compared with the 18 percent shown in a 1999 survey.
EPC, a consumer-protection group, is also attacking advertising that warps children's eating habits.
Last week this organization publicly censured the Kellogg and Nestle companies, which it accuses of being jointly responsible for the increasing number of fat kids in the country because of the marketing of their various cereal brands.
According to EPC director Alejandro Calvillo, the deterioration of Mexico's eating habits occurred because people no longer eat much in the way of fruits and vegetables - in 14 years the amount has fallen by 30 percent, according to researchers at the National Institute of Public Health.
"Companies' self-regulation of advertising to children is an obvious failure. It's the government that has to look after childhood health - the companies look after their profits," Calvillo said.
Meanwhile, the latest statistics indicate that nine percent of Mexican adults are diabetic and that mortality from that cause is growing at an annual rate of three percent.
The significance of these numbers is that diabetes has shot up from eighth place to become the number-one cause of death in a period of less than 20 years.
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