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Corporate Accountability International points out how the proximity of fast food restaurants to schools influences our children’s diets.

In the United States (US), inner city children are likely to pass several fast food stores on their way to school. Around 20% of public schools even sell branded fast food. Aggressive marketing and the omnipresence of fast food make it difficult to avoid being bombarded by promotional messages.

The organisation points out that the Centres for Disease Control predict one out of every child born in 2000 in the US will develop type 2 diabetes.

Corporate Accountability International are asking the fast food industry to
- Stop marketing, promotion and sponsorship to children and teenagers
- Stop manipulating public health policy and nutrition science
- Provide complete, accurate and non-promotional information about the health risks of fast food
- Reduce negative impacts of fast food
- Pay the high costs of health care associated with diet-related diseases

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