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Food Commercials and Mixed Messages
While playing with William this afternoon I noticed a show that was on in the background called "Too Fat to Toddle" on BBC. It was a documentary-type show about the obesity epidemic facing British children.
What threw me for a loop was that a commercial came on for Pop Tarts and showed kids using them to make ice cream sandwiches and sticking popcicle sticks into the bottom of them to eat them! Why in the world is this kind of commercial being shown during a show about obese children??
I'm sure I'll have my hands full with having to deal with product placement and kid-focused food commercials. Does anyone else find this odd and how do you deal with commercials?
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Permalink Reply by Stacy Fournier on -
I know exactly which commercial you are talking about! I was actually at the grocery store the other day, and I took a look at the Pop Tarts. I couldn't believe the flavors they have out now! They are more like dessert! It's really hard to to tell children they should pick fruit/eggs/etc. over these junk items when the junk items are made to look so yummy!
We do allow junk items once in a while, but we are really trying hard to teach Aubrey which foods are healthy and which are not. She seems to be catching on quick.
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Permalink Reply by Mel Campos on -
it doesn't stop with kids either. they sell the same mentality to adults. ever wonder why you see commercials telling you that you WILL get tired at 2:30pm and the ONLY solution is either coffee, candy or an energy drink?
yeah, that "2:30 feeling" is only a result of a bad lunch. every single day, i try to eat either raw mixed veggies or fruit for lunch, and there is no crash. i have tons of energy, the good ole' fashioned natural kind. i used to get that same 2:30 feeling even when i'd eat a turkey sandwich with spinach on wheat. as soon as i cut out the bread and cut out the meat i feel like a completely different person. (i still eat meat... i'm not trying to trash meat eaters, i just feel better if i leave it out during the day!)
and i've seen that commercial, and it made me kind of pukey. i've now killed my tv and only watch things online where you can at least block out side-bar ads.
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Permalink Reply by Cherie Schneider on -
They sell the commercial space to whomever will buy it--they don't look at that the product is or anything . Tonight while shopping we looked at the label of the cranberry juice --the cheapo one and the name brand one (50 cent diff)--the cheapo one was all junk--and for 50 Cent more you got the real thing without high fructose corn syrup , etc etc---if we don't educate our kids and model for them--then they will go the way of what they see on TV--
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