The release of polling today showing that 82 percent of people want the government to regulate the way food is marketed to children supports the Greens' push to ban junk food advertising during children's television viewing hours.
 
"It is time that the Prime Minister stopped listening to the junk food lobby and began listening to Australian parents," said Greens Leader Bob Brown said today.
 
"Some of the best paid psychologists in Australia are working day and night to think up new ways to sell junk food to Australia's children, and it is working."
 
Data from the University of Sydney shows that physical activity among children has been increasing suggesting the cause of childhood obesity is food intake, not laziness, as the Minister for Health Tony Abbott has inferred.
 
"The problem is not children sitting on the couch it is the Minister sitting on his hands. The Greens have already drafted an amendment to the Broadcasting Act that would protect children from television ads. The Government needs to support it," said Senator Brown.
 
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