The Irish Heart Foundation has called on the Government to match new regulations in the UK banning daytime TV and online adverts for junk foods, in what the British government called a “world-leading action” to tackle childhood obesity.
The ban – targeting ads for products high in fat, salt or sugar – is expected to remove up to 7.2 billion calories from children’s diets each year, according to the UK health ministry…https://www.rte.ie/news/uk/2026/0105/1551476-uk-ads-food-ban/