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Researcher studying links between TV ads and junk food

TV advertisers can pitch junk food to kids in Ontario. But in Quebec, the law doesn't allow ads aimed at children under 13. Does this, an Ottawa researcher wonder, make one set of kids more obese?...One PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa is trying to find out whether Quebec's laws on advertising to children, among the world's strictest, pay off in better health.

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