Candy at the Cash Register: Next nanny state target for "government regulations on design and placement of harmful foods"?

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/Hypertension/35314

Cardio Notes: Stores Urged to Rethink Candy at Cash Register

By Chris Kaiser, Cardiology Editor, MedPage Today

Published: October 15, 2012

Marketers should be held accountable for the slick ways they entice people to consume unhealthy foods, researchers urge. Also this week, pregnant women, blood pressure meds, and arrhythmias.

'Impulse Marketing' to Blame for Obesity

Strategically placing candy by the cash register "encourages spur-of-the-moment, emotion-related purchases and should be considered a risk factor for chronic diseases and obesity, according to a perspective in the Oct. 11 New England Journal of Medicine.

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Cohen and Babey suggested it is time to "identify which marketing strategies place people at risk or undermine their health, as well as to quantify the magnitude of risk." This knowledge should inform government regulations on design and placement of harmful foods, they added."