Is TV feeding your kids junk-food ads?

The television channels your child watches may be bombarding him with hundreds of commercials for unhealthy food, a new study suggests. Researchers studied a single TV network in Australia frequently watched by children. They calculated the number of food commercials that appeared over a one-year period, focusing on the hours before school (7 a.m. to 9 a.m.) and after school (4 p.m. to 10 p.m.) when children tend to watch television. Ads for unhealthy food such as chips, fast food and fried food appeared almost twice as often as commercials for healthy food, the study found. Junk-food advertising actually increased