MELBOURNE Kevin Zeitler Browns Jersey , Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- Toys can have a significant influence on the eating choices of children, an Australian study has found.
The study, published by the Cancer Council of Victoria (CCV) on Tuesday, found that children aged between five and nine years old were more likely to choose a healthy food option if the meal came with a free toy, such as a character from a popular movie.
More than 1,000 children were offered a number of healthy and unhealthy meal choices after watching a trailer for a film.
Overall, children were more likely to choose the unhealthy option, but the interest in the healthy meals increased significantly when a toy was offered.
Jane Martin, a member of the Obesity Policy Coalition, said that the study proved that the marketing around unhealthy food choices aimed at children should be restricted.
"It's very, very hard to protect your kids from this kind of promotion; it's virtually impossible," Martin told Australian media on Tuesday.
"With one in four Australian kids currently overweight or obese, we should be supporting parents to make healthier choices, and not setting them up to battle with their kids over unhealthy food.
"I think that most children would not be requesting to go into a fast food franchise without the toy and the collectables."
She went as far as to say that toys and giveaways should only be allowed to be paired with healthy options.
"It shows that these kinds of promotions can be used in a way to harness children's interest and desires, and use it to put healthy food in front of them," Martin said.
Helen Dixon, lead researcher from the CCV, agreed with Martin, saying companies should have to fulfill nutrition criteria before giveaway promotions could be run.
"We know from analysis of advertising content on TV and other media that unhealthy food products like sweets, breakfast cereals, sugary junk food, snack food, fast food is very much overrepresented," Dixon said.
"We know marketing works, companies wouldn't invest so much in it if they didn't think it worked."
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BEIJING, March 26 (Xinhua) -- Cross-Strait economic cooperation should not to be disturbed by disputes about a service trade pact, which the mainland considers "mutually beneficial."
"From the mainland's perspective, the cross-Strait service trade pact is well drafted and mutually beneficial. We did what we should do (in the negotiation of the pact)," said Ma Xiaoguang, spokesman with the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, at a press conference while commenting on protests against the pact in Taiwan.
Hundreds of college students have occupied the island's legislative chamber in Taipei since Tuesday last week to protest against ratification of the pact.
The two sides of the Taiwan Strait signed the pact as a result of economic liberation and globalization, Ma said, adding that neither Taiwan nor the mainland can avoid the process of economic integration.
Ma reminded the people of Taiwan of the positive effects of cross-Strait economic cooperation to economic growth and people's livelihoods on both sides over the past two decades.
"We do not want the economic cooperation to be affected," he said.
The mainland and Taiwan should not dismiss the progress made in cross-Strait relations since 2008, he said.
"No one would like to see cross-Strait relations return to the tension and confrontation before 2008," he said. "For the sake of people on both sides, no one wants to see peaceful development disturbed."
He urged the people of Taiwan to look carefully at the pact and to clarify their misunderstandings.
A follow-up agreement to the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement, the service trade pact was signed in June 2013 and promises to open up 80 of the mainland's service sectors to Taiwan and 64 of Taiwan's sectors to the mainland.
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