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Sadly, exactly the audience that shouldn't be showered with high-fat ads for food is exactly the one getting them.  Even sadder, it's their kids the advertisers are after. A new study has found that the majority of ads found on Spanish-languagae TV channels are for food that is not healthy, according to nbcnews.com. Jacquellena Carrero  notes that Latinos have one of the highest obesity rates in the nation and these commercials are not at all productive or helpful. Carrero pointed out in her article that Dale Kunkel, Professor of Communication at the University of Arizona at Tucson and the lead author of the study, "said that researchers used an independent food rating system by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to designate foods as healthy or unhealthy." The HHS used a clever scale to measure foods' capacity to for calories. Carrero reported that scale goes from “'go'” foods that are low in fat and calories to ...

Now I really have heard it all.  A politician wants us to "be free" eat as many Twinkies as we want. According to politico.com writers, "Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.) argued in POLITICO April 17 that it should be illegal for the U.S. government’s public health guardian — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — to point out to children and their parents that Twinkies and sugar-laced sodas are bad for health." Huh, wha?  That's right.  Schock (should we be surprised he's a Republican?) wants to make it so government cannot interfere in what we, or our kids, eat and drink. In an op-ed he wrote for the Web site, "Schock expresses concern that federal money is being used by local health agencies to “attack … Americans’ freedom of choice” when they point out that such products have little nutritional value, and contribute to the exploding rates of diabetes and other chronic disease," politico.com reports, adding that Shock's solution...