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Americans see no shortage of villains behind the epidemic of childhood obesity. A poll fielded for the Wall Street Journal Online’s Heath Industry Edition by Harris Interactive gave people a chance to ladle out blame. As you can see from the chart, food-industry advertising to kids ranks as a significant culprit. Indeed, the number of adults taking this view (strongly or somewhat) has risen 10 percentage points since 2005.
Still, parents are at the forefront when responsibility is handed out for kids’ dietary excesses.
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