Whether a ban on junk food advertising was a good way to tackle the obesity problem across the UK will be difficult to judge after research on the effects on food industry lobbying reveal the ban to now be largely ineffective.

The real problem is around nutrition & the need to find ways to shift many people's eating habits *without* victim blaming.... the advert ban seemed one good way to do that, but now we cannot know how effective it might have been!

#obesity #food
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/10/uk-junk-food-ad-ban-so-diluted-it-may-be-largely-ineffective-experts-say