Last wednesday, a law concerning the legislation on food advertisements has been signed by the French government.

Today, in France there are 20 million people who suffer from  overweight including  5.9 million obese. And one child on six is in overweight. However overweights and obesity are important factors of risk for many diseases: hypertension, diseases cardiac, diabetes and cancers.

But the French situation is not the worst in comparison with the american or even british situation where the rate of overweight perple or obese is more important.

In order to prevent it, the recent law envisages the apparition of written or spoken messages which will be placed at the end of each ad. Those messages will encourage people to eat balanced and to do sport.

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