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past 12 months can u remember A SINGLE advertisement for NON-PROCESSED<br />

FOOD!!?? LIKE CABBAGE, CAULIFLOWER? CARROTS OR EVEN APPLES!!<br />

It’s often denied by the food industry that advertising is responsible for human<br />

behaviour, yet if advertising didn’t work, why do it and keep doing it? We already<br />

know that the food industry has already created huge changes in our daily lives.<br />

The Food industry effects consumer behaviour<br />

A huge report taking by the government into UK eating patterns and how they have<br />

changed since 1974 all adds strongly to the case my belief that obesity and<br />

processed food consumption are in fact directly related.<br />

In the periods between 1974 and 2000, household freezer ownership increased from<br />

15 per cent, to 94 per cent.<br />

The changes in technology have prompted us to consume more convenience foods,<br />

such as frozen pizza and pasta, of which, sales have sharply spiked.<br />

Per the results over time, skimmed and semi-skimmed milk have gradually become<br />

the UK’s ph., surpassing full-fat milk in the 1990s. Brits now consume four times as<br />

much semi-skimmed and skimmed milk.<br />

Between 1974 and 2014, takeaway pizzas increased by 1000%. As well as this,<br />

pasta has doubled since 1998, when it was initially added to the survey

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