Clodagh Finn: Should Christmas food advertisers be forced to include health warnings

Glossy advertising images prolong the overeating splurge that is Christmas. What was once a

IT’S not the too-early Christmas decorations that get me — anything that brings a bit of colour to dark November is a plus in my book. What rankles is the premature assault on the senses brought on by all those sumptuous food adverts.

There are still six weeks to go, but the sinful seduction started weeks ago with glossy, beautifully produced pictures of potatoes, roasted golden in goose fat, turkey and stuffing with a bowl of perfectly plump cranberries in the foreground, a slice of thickly iced cake. And on it goes with a let-me-sink-my-teeth-into-it-now appeal.