Poor diet correlates with chronic disease, morbidity and mortality. Yet unlike smoking and alcohol, there are no food warning labels or messages. getty

Watching a football game this weekend, I was bombarded with commercials promoting a wide array of unhealthy foods. It reminded me that Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has said he wants to crack down on junk food ads, particularly those targeting children. But thus far, Kennedy has offered few concrete policy solutions. One avenue he could try and pursue is adding mandatory warning labels on certain foods and beverages for sale which could also be applied to advertisements on television, radio, online and in print media. Other countries are doing this. Chile, for example, now has easily recognizable stop-sig

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