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hatam_soferet) wrote2009-04-30 11:55 pm
hatam_soferet) wrote2009-04-30 11:55 pm
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That marvellous provider of public service announcements, the Ad Council, has an anti-obesity campaign.
Nearly two-thirds of American adults are overweight or obese due to sedentary lifestyles and unhealthy eating habits. Obesity rates have increased by more than 60% among adults over the last 10 years. As a result, the health of the nation is getting progressively worse with consequences including increased risk for heart disease, hypertension and diabetes.
I wrote to them asking for data to back these claims up, because certainly they are the sorts of facts that "everyone knows," just like "everyone knows" all gay people are paedophiles, but it's just possible they are repeating information which is not actually fact.
Accordingly I really, really hope that one day this:
will seem as ridiculous as this:
I think? The lady in the picture looks just fine. Rather good, actually, assuming she's healthy. Sort of like those ads which insisted that one joint would lead inevitably to injecting heroin - if that is obesity I don't see what's wrong with it.
Nearly two-thirds of American adults are overweight or obese due to sedentary lifestyles and unhealthy eating habits. Obesity rates have increased by more than 60% among adults over the last 10 years. As a result, the health of the nation is getting progressively worse with consequences including increased risk for heart disease, hypertension and diabetes.
I wrote to them asking for data to back these claims up, because certainly they are the sorts of facts that "everyone knows," just like "everyone knows" all gay people are paedophiles, but it's just possible they are repeating information which is not actually fact.
Accordingly I really, really hope that one day this:
will seem as ridiculous as this:
I think? The lady in the picture looks just fine. Rather good, actually, assuming she's healthy. Sort of like those ads which insisted that one joint would lead inevitably to injecting heroin - if that is obesity I don't see what's wrong with it.