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Are TV Commercials Making You Sick?
Healthy TV commercials? The unfortunate reality is if you see it advertised on TV, chances are pretty darn good whatever they’re advertising is not truly good for you, and those TV commercials are making you sick.
Seriously, think about these three things and what you see on television: food, drugs, personal care products. Let’s talk about them one at a time and see what might or might not be good about them.
Food
Food…what do we see advertised on TV that is healthy for us to eat? Can you think of one thing? When I think of food on TV, I am hard pressed to come up with anything other than fast food, junk food and the like. Sure, there are some eating establishments that are advertised where you could find something on the menu that has the potential to be healthy, but what do they use as ingredients. Buzz kill…you have no control over the oils and bad fats, the genetically modified (GMO) ingredients, the amount of added sugar and salt, etc. that they use to keep their costs low and their profit high at the expense of your good health.
Drugs
What about the drug advertisers! I swear there are some channels that are owned by the pharmaceutical companies. It seems the shows that run old programs from the 50s, 60s and 70s are the worst for this. Do you think they’re hoping their audience is on prescription medications? So many of the ads are about drugs! What about those drugs?
Don’t misunderstand me; I’ll grant you in some instances, drugs and modern medicine do save us, but too often, do you think they may be substituted for our laziness in taking care of ourselves, more specifically in eating to be well so we don’t need drugs? If we eat well and control our food intake, we will be less likely to become diabetic, obese and depressed. We’ll be less likely to suffer with other chronic ailments that plague our population. We are getting sicker, fatter and older younger than ever before.
You see your doctor with a complaint, and instead of asking you what you are eating or how you are living, the most likely scenario is that he/she gives youa prescription medication designed to suppress your complaint…get rid of the symptom that is warning you something is wrong.
