{"id":153938,"date":"2020-07-27T01:01:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T23:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/07\/27\/web-ads-for-junk-food-could-be-banned-under-uk-government-plans\/"},"modified":"2020-07-27T01:01:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T23:01:36","slug":"web-ads-for-junk-food-could-be-banned-under-uk-government-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=153938","title":{"rendered":"Web ads for junk food could be banned under UK government plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ban on unhealthy food TV adverts before 9pm could extend to all online adsJunk food adverts could be banned entirely online, after the government\u2019s decision to bar any unhealthy food advertising before 9pm online or on television, as part of its strategy to tackle the \u201ctime bomb\u201d of obesity.The measures have been cautiously welcomed though some health experts are concerned they place too much emphasis on individual responsibility for obesity, rather than addressing health inequalities. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2020\/jul\/27\/web-ads-for-junk-food-could-be-banned-uk\" target=\"_blank\">Web ads for junk food could be banned under UK government plans<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ban on unhealthy food TV adverts before 9pm could extend to all online adsJunk food adverts could be banned entirely online, after the government\u2019s decision to bar any unhealthy food advertising before 9pm online or on television, as part of its strategy to tackle the \u201ctime bomb\u201d of obesity.The measures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}