Petition Legislate that weight-loss adverts are only permitted post-watershed.

Approximately 1.25 million people in the UK have an eating disorder*. It is difficult to watch daytime TV without viewing adverts telling people how to lose weight. This is not appropriate content for children, who internalize this narrative telling them that weight-loss is desirable.

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* https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/media-centre/eating-disorder-statistics

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Date closed 6 November 2019
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