something I saw on FB

BrenWOW

" The key to eating healthy? Never eat a food that has a commercial for it".


HOW TRUE!!!!

now_or_never13

I"ve seen commercials for milk, meat and produce though... so I wouldn't say the saying is totally true.

itsuki

But there are commercials for chiquita bananas all the time.

AlsDonkBoxSquat

" The key to eating healthy? Never eat a food that has a commercial for it".


HOW TRUE!!!!

I've seen commercials for Perdue, Egglands Best, Grass Fed Beef, Kashi, Florida's Best Orange Juice, various yogurts, peanut butter, various cereal companies who produce fine cereals, and beer amongst other things. This is a facebook advice fail.

cmriverside

SoDamnHungry

But there are commercials for chiquita bananas all the time.

/end thread. Bananas!

MissLuana

This is why you don't listen to FB :laugh:

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ldrosophila

I know that Kashi go lean has some ads and almonds

jcstanton

It's true that NEVER is too strong a word in this case, but I think the point is that MOST food commercials are for processed crap or restaurants/fast food chains that serve processed crap. I think a better way of putting it would be, "Never trust an advertising campaign to give you heatlhy eating tips."

cargilb

" The key to eating healthy? Never eat a food that has a commercial for it".


HOW TRUE!!!!

i guess its true. but, some foods, like strawberries are great for you. I think , i've seen commercials for strawberries and other fruits. What I think would be more exact would be to not eat anything that is prepackaged, cooked, prepared and has commercials. prepackaged-prepared foods are poison. commercialized-foods are, for the most part, poison. They are intended to make you crave. Food companies have scientists and psychologists working to make you want their poison. Healthy foods do not make you crave. So, commercialized foods won't use healthy food to make you crave their product. commercialized foods have a tendency to be laced with starch or fat or something that sends signals to the reptilian part of the brain (the hypothalamus) to reward the eater by releasing endorphins ( feel good hormones basically morphine) and give pleasure to the eater for eating unhealthy fattening foods.

people are basically addicted to carbs, starch and fat because of that mechanism in the body.
So, next time you catch yourself thinking, "I love this food", or " I must eat this food", or "this is so delicious its like an orgasm", realize that the food is activating the hypothalamus to release endorphins and you are reacting to that. this is basically how all animals select food at an instinctive level.

BrenWOW

Ok Ok I knew everyone would start correcting- There are way more commercials for unhealthy food than eggs and strawberries.

cargilb

Ok Ok I knew everyone would start correcting- There are way more commercials for unhealthy food than eggs and strawberries.

true. there are a lot more commercials for unhealthy foods than good foods that are low calorie foods.

MidwestAngel

Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun.

RunHardBeStrong

I would say that would apply more to coupons than commercials!

cargilb

Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun.

nothing worng with lettuce pickles, onions, but i don't know about the special sauce, the bun, and whether the "all beef" patties are really all beef.

John2347

its a good idea and i would have to modify it by saying "dont eat anything you see a commercial for more than 1X per hour"... that cuts out all fast foods and pretty much just leaves the healthy stuff

justlittlem

I guess thats no more Spongebob for me =/.

3dogsrunning

Ok Ok I knew everyone would start correcting- There are way more commercials for unhealthy food than eggs and strawberries.

That's true but it still doesn't make your original statement true.
Plus I'm not a "never" type person. Eat it infrequently, yes. Never, no. Unless I don't like it.

cargilb

Ok Ok I knew everyone would start correcting- There are way more commercials for unhealthy food than eggs and strawberries.

That's true but it still doesn't make your original statement true.
Plus I'm not a "never" type person. Eat it infrequently, yes. Never, no. Unless I don't like it.

that was a facebook statement, not her statement. she was asking how true it was. :happy:

FredDoyle

" The key to eating healthy? Never eat a food that has a commercial for it".


HOW TRUE!!!!

Couldn't be less true.
Eggs, cheese, fruit, milk, beef, pork, fish, olives, pickles, the list is endless, so a useless platitude.
Facebook is all about commercials so don't use facebook.

3dogsrunning

Ok Ok I knew everyone would start correcting- There are way more commercials for unhealthy food than eggs and strawberries.

That's true but it still doesn't make your original statement true.
Plus I'm not a "never" type person. Eat it infrequently, yes. Never, no. Unless I don't like it.

that was a facebook statement, not her statement. she was asking how true it was. :happy:

I supposed I used the wrong phrasing there. The original post instead of statement then.
Although the way I read it, she was stating it was true, not questioning it. (I'm not being an *** that is genuinely how I read it. )

cargilb

Ok Ok I knew everyone would start correcting- There are way more commercials for unhealthy food than eggs and strawberries.

That's true but it still doesn't make your original statement true.
Plus I'm not a "never" type person. Eat it infrequently, yes. Never, no. Unless I don't like it.

that was a facebook statement, not her statement. she was asking how true it was. :happy:

I supposed I used the wrong phrasing there. The original post instead of statement then.
Although the way I read it, she was stating it was true, not questioning it. (I'm not being an *** that is genuinely how I read it. )

ok

Linli_Anne

I cancelled the cable.

Problem solved!

NikkiSixGuns

I guess thats no more Spongebob for me =/.

Yeah! Leave some Spongebob for the rest of us.

1shauna1

Foodland Ontario has commercials all the time for the different produce throughout the year...oranges...yeah, not sure I'd go with this FB fact!

ubermensch13

Ok Ok I knew everyone would start correcting- There are way more commercials for unhealthy food than eggs and strawberries.

But you just made a claim the statement was a Universal truth. You should have qualified the statement, including the exceptions. The statement, logically, is NOT true, however, if you throw in your exception, it becomes MORE true. It isn't that people are attacking you, they are pointing out the flaws in the claim the statement is TRUE, not usually true. /end logic lesson.

FredDoyle

Foodland Ontario has commercials all the time for the different produce throughout the year...oranges...yeah, not sure I'd go with this FB fact!

Heh. "Facebook fact" is an oxymoron. :flowerforyou: