by Saeed Kamali Denghan
“The situation regarding junk food is very worrisome in Nepal,” says Atul Upadhyay of the global health organisation Helen Keller International, who is featured in UCL’s Nepal film study, produced in collaboration with the Kathmandu-based centre for research on environment, health and population activities. “Children are eating more unhealthy food than they are eating healthy food.”
Professor Sarah Hawkes, director of UCL’s centre for gender and global health, and the lead researcher behind the project, says the footage collected by children in Nepal was similar to those filmed in Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tunisia, Vietnam and the UK.
“All children we worked with shared the common experience of pervasive, powerful and, it seems, often unregulated advertising and promotion,” she says.
“The children’s footage vividly communicates that, once they step outside schools, they, and their parents, have very little control over what they see and experience, what is on their local high street, or what is going into the food they purchase there.”
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Question
Use the passage to answer the question.
Analyze the passage. Which best describes the author’s point of view regarding junk food?
(1 point)
Responses
Children are eating far too much junk food.
Children are eating far too much junk food.
Advertising has little to do with people’s food choices.
Advertising has little to do with people’s food choices.
Parents are responsible for their children’s eating habits.
Parents are responsible for their children’s eating habits.
The overconsumption of junk food is exaggerated.
1 answer
The response that best describes the author’s point of view regarding junk food is:
Children are eating far too much junk food.
This choice aligns with the concerns expressed by Atul Upadhyay and the overall findings of the study, which highlight the worrying trend of children consuming unhealthy food more than healthy options, influenced significantly by pervasive advertising.
