Junk food ads aggravate EU child obesity problem

Increasingly obese children are Europe's ticking time bomb in health care cost terms, with health experts urging European governments to do more to stamp out marketing of unhealthy food to the vulnerable group.

Each year over 400,000 more children become obese in the EU, health commissioner Marios Kypraionou said in May, with research by the International Obesity Taskforce showing that the child curve trend swung upward in the mid-1990s.

The UK has the worst rates in Europe, wh...