I agree with you, KidFreeLuvnLife - ads don't make kids want junk food. I wanted to punch my computer screen when I read that article - parents are just trying to cover up their incompetence because they can't make their fucking kids eat some celery and do stuff outside. I was overweight when I was a child, and it wasn't because of buying junk food I saw on television - it was because people let me eat like a garbage disposal.
It sickens me to no end how lazy, incompetent parents will look for excuses to shield their own failures with raising their sprogs. Also, just because kids want junk food, that means they automatically get it. Hello, breeders? Stop buying your damn kids the junk food! Are these parents really that retarded that they can't figure this out?
Next, irate breeders will be suing Nintendo and Sony for making video games because they keep the brats in the house and don't give them the chance to go outside to play, and the kids end up getting fat from sitting around like bumps on logs all day.