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I read an article about ads for unhealthy foods on psyblog today. Children in the United States, for example, are exposed to at least fifteen television commercials for food each day, remember that is for children and usually children are limited to how much television they watch a day, which makes me wonder how many adults and teens see. By advertising food products, companies aren't only telling you to choose their product over others, but to go and eat it right then. There was a test done on children to see if they would eat more food while watching food commercials or nonfood ones. The results showed that the children who were showed food commercials ate 45% more off the food provided than when not showed food commercials. There was also a test on young adults and it was also showed that one-third more of junk food was eaten. So it might be safe to say that by viewing unhealthy food commercials people are more likely to eat unhealthy. The commercials make you crave what you see and go out to find and eat it. Overall I think that this may be true. I have been known to eat junk food while watching television than when I'm not.