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It's really an ad against fast food, since most hamburgers consumed are fast food crap.
If you choose your own ingredients, esp Real Meat, then a hamburger is harmless. Hardly anybody does that anymore.
Time for another inappropriate left-wing PSA.
The same people that want to legalize drugs want to make hamburgers illegal. Amazing.
It's really an ad against fast food, since most hamburgers consumed are fast food crap.
If you choose your own ingredients, esp Real Meat, then a hamburger is harmless. Hardly anybody does that anymore.
Considering the national obesity rate, I'd say this was not a big surprise.
I didn't see anywhere in the PSA where hamburgers should be illegal.
Comparing them to heroine is a bit of a stretch as well....but the underlying message is valid.
There was a study recently that showed people have a very hard time giving up fast food crap, which has been engineered with salt/grease/sugar/chemicals to be tasty. If you think the industrial food-like substances industry is just trying to give give a quality product, you're a fool.
The difficulty was likened to an addiction, which was probably the motivation for this ad.
I must have missed the inappropriate part..........
Apparantely I also missed the part where someone is advocating outlawing hamburgers.......
many people want to legalize a drug.. not drugs.. another MAJOR FAILURE by darrins
Its surprising to me that Darrin of all the people on this board is unfamiliar with hyperbole.
I really wish we had more studies like this because I think it is becoming well do ented how companies like McDonalds do everything in their power to lock in a customer so young and keep them coming back forever.
I don't want to outlaw hamburgers since I love a good burger but I want fast food practices to be more out in the open.
hmmm, I know what I'm getting 4 lunch
Did they just do a bad job when we were younger manny? I am curious about this because I loved me a good happy meal when I was younger, but you couldn't pay me enough to eat there now. It changed right around the age of 10 or so.
SFO, the hippie commies, are considering banning Happy Meals and other such junk food come-ons and promotions for kiddoes.
I'm not a big fan of thought crimes. Kiddoes don't buy Happy Meals. Parents do.
The commercial is a bit heavy handed... There are a number of factors that lead to childhood obesity, only one of which is a poor diet.
Plenty of healthy kids enjoy an occasional happy meal after soccer practice. Comparing it to heroin, which is not okay in moderation or when combined with a decent level of exercise, is pretty silly.
You should have just posted the video.
It's definitely heavy handed, but as a nation that's pretty much how we deserve to be treated. No doubt there's nothing wrong with the occasional post-practice happy meal, but that's not who the add is targeting.
"number of factors that lead to childhood obesity, only one of which is a poor diet."
The overwhelming dominant factor is poor diet. Exercise isn't necessary to maintain lean weight and overall health. Good diet can do it all.
I'm for exercise to get fit, but most people can't/won't exercise enough to burn off excess/empty calories, so the only solution long-term is good diet, at any age.
The industrial food-like substances industry knows how to engineer/concoct their crap, how to market their crap, to get people hooked, to get their crap accepted as normal food. It's another total fraud by food-like corporations.
Heroin is a dramatic metaphor, obviously not meant to be scientifically/medically equivalent, but the addiction angle is accurate.
As I've said elsewhere, put bacon and cheese on a turd, and Americans will suck it down.
There's a corporate/lobbyist assault going on right now about the composition of the upcoming new food pyramid.
hamburgers are just a gateway food to french fries
once you snort a few mcfries you can kiss your free will goodbye.
I think most people the ad is targeting will find the ad too over-the-top to be taken seriously. It diminishes the message. JMO.
American Children Consuming Too Many Empty Calories
Journal of the American Dietetic Association that over half of all calories consumed by American kids are empty calories. The main reason is the excess consumption of high-calorie drinks and junk food.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/prin...?newsid=203276
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The very probably applies to adults.
I agree with boutons. The biggest factor is diet. Its not just fast food though. Ever see how much of the food you buy has ing high fructose corn syrup in it? I hate subsidizing corn farmers because this is what it gets you. Corn in ing everything.
And its expensive as to eat healthy. If it weren't for the farmers markets here I know I couldn't go to whole foods and pay their prices to get healthier food as much. Its just ridiculous.
Feeding you kids organic wraps, protein shakes and salads while letting them sit on the couch all day watching TV isn't good for them. There is nothing wrong with giving your kid fast food or candy or marshmallow cereal on occasion, as long as it's balanced by exercise and other less-junky meals.
Most kids will, unless they're trained from birth to be couch potatoes.I'm for exercise to get fit, but most people can't/won't exercise enough to burn off excess/empty calories
But you miss the point that is your kid has a healthy diet but doesn't exercise he still doesn't become obese.
Lack of exercise isn't the leading cause of obesity. Diet is. Thats the point. Its not that not exercising is good for a kid.
Also, I think your last statement is false. If kids have a bad diet they won't automatically burn it off because they're kids who aren't couch potatoes.
Also, that bad diet follows you and kicks your ass when your metabolism kicks down outta that neurotic teen gear.
Yeah, found that out first hand right here.
All through my high school years and early 20s I played sports nearly every day. Was very very active. Was always stocky but never obese and I figured if I could stay in the gym 8 hours a day and be ready to go the next day for anther 8 hours then it really didn't matter what I ate.
Fast forward to late 20s when I've become much less active and BAM MannyIsAFatty. Now, I am active again and I cycle a lot and play some sports but I have to watch the out of what I eat in order to keep from gaining weight and actually lose some. Even so, losing it now is already harder than 10 years ago. I can only imagine how much harder it will be in 10 or 20 years.
Still - being heavier than those skinny Lance Armstrong wannabe's in their spandex and still flying past them on bike is satisfying as .
see what happens when you elect a socialist? burgers get outlawed.
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