Over the past decades, quick convenient food, often called fast or junk food, has become readily available, leading to serious problems including obesity, heart disease and high blood pressure. Many people hold the view that it is the advertising of this food that is responsible for these issues, and therefore ought to stopped. While I do not support a complete ban on this form of marketing, I do feel that stricter regulations and greater transparency are needed. Although an outright ban on fast food promotion may seem appealing, it would not be a sensible move. For starters, companies would suffer huge financial losses if they were unable to promote their products. Magnum Ice Creams, for instance, runs TV and billboard campaigns when they launch a new product, and if they were prevented from doing so, far fewer consumers would even know the new treat existed. This would inevitably lead to a reduction in revenue, possibly a fall in the company’s stock prices, retrenchments...