Ban on unhealthy food adverts on Transport for London network

UK OBESITY PROBLEMS: CHECK YOUR DRAINS FOR SOLUTION

In my opinion and from personal observations and personal experience...I feel the solution Britain needs to tackle obesity in adult and children is down the drain...many homes across the globe have issues with clogged pipes; Thames water recently produced a flyer tagged "bin it" ....May I please request the Mayor of London and his team to not just stop advertisement of junk food but produce a similar flier requesting the entire populace to simply bin these items from their daily meals:

1. Grease e.g butter

2.factory made Oil...of all types

3. Factory made sugar 

The first 2 above clogges our kitchen pipes...became a menace for Thames water last year...in fact adding these items to our meals is like folding up such meals in oil-bag...making it difficult for the body to process our food...the body doesn't even know what to do with all the oil and grease an average British populace consumes DAILY...these are stored in our body pipes, i.e. ARTERY, BUTS, extra chin and all other unwanted weight/fat hidden in various fold around and within the body...leading to diseases like stroke, blood clotting, pains, and worst of all stored as fat...childhood obesity etc

I wonder why no one seem to be looking at things from this angle...shall we look at Thames waters "bin it" image to produce a similar advert using human pipes...e.g clogged arteries 

I think an advertising ban would be useful but wouldn’t work on its own. While it would reduce kids exposure to the sort of food and drink that is making many grossly overweight it won’t work if their parents either feed them rubbish or give them money to buy it themselves. Not sure what the solution to this is because it’s not as if there haven’t been endless campaigns to try and change habits. I guess if we really can’t trust parents to do their bit then more draconian measures may be called for - but I for one like the odd tray of chips and gravy and would hate to see these sort of places driven out of business. But maybe we simply don’t need so many?

It's a good idea and one that I wholeheartedly support.  I get pressure from my children, to buy unhealthy food that they have seen advertised on children's channels, so I don't think that it is unreasonable to assume that they are influenced by advertising at tube stations and on buses. Children need to be educated that the food companies, will continue to develop food products, low on good nutrition but full of additives and preservatives to enhance shelf life. They need to understand that the food industry does not care, if the aggressive marketing campaigns aimed at children, contributes to the obesity epedemic and associated diseases.  A ban on TFL, is a step in the right direction.

I think the local government should be worrying about more important issues such as knife crime and homelessness 

Smacks of Nanny State, "the man in Whitehall knows best".

The fast food industry probably employs a few thousand people across London plus on the logistics side. If you target this industry and  demands contracts, what do you reckon these people are going to do for a living?

Yep, ban it outright, less advertising = less sales of this type of food = manufacturers changing their products to ones the are allowed to advertise (i.e. the healthier foods).

Yes, advertising for unhealthy foods should be stopped on the Transport for London network.

If adverts didn't have any effect on us then the big firms that buy it wouldn't spend millions of Pounds plastering their messages to consume excessive amounts of overly processed pap on any surface that can be seen.

Give us all a break from this visual commercial onslaught.