Shaw Caroline
Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand.
N Z Med J. 2009 Jan 23;122(1288):76-86.
Three and a half years ago an editorial in the NZMJ called for restrictions on marketing of unhealthy food to New Zealand children. This paper discusses progress since then. There has been a seemingly relentless documentation of adverse health consequences of the obesity epidemic in the intervening years, increasing evidence that marketing of unhealthy food contributes to the epidemic, growing knowledge about New Zealand children's exposure to marketing of unhealthy food, and evidence of public support to decrease children's exposure to marketing of unhealthy food. Yet there is still a lack of substantive action on the restriction of marketing of unhealthy food to children in New Zealand.
三年半以前，《新西兰医学杂志》（NZMJ）的一篇社论呼吁对向新西兰儿童推销不健康食品的行为加以限制。本文探讨了自那时以来的进展情况。在这期间，对肥胖流行所带来的不良健康后果的记录似乎源源不断，越来越多的证据表明不健康食品的营销助长了这一流行趋势，人们对新西兰儿童接触不健康食品营销的了解不断增加，而且有证据表明公众支持减少儿童接触不健康食品的营销活动。然而，在新西兰，对于限制向儿童推销不健康食品的行为，仍然缺乏实质性行动。
