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Post: Fast food adverts - Destroying our future...
Forum: Something For All
Assigned Moderators: sypherz, Shoop, malakadang, They be trippin

Posted by: Ashaxx
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All that seems to be on TV ad breaks lately is fast food adverts. If anyone has spoken to me or saw a thread of mine recently I've been eating healthy. I'm not fat at all (before any of you start) I just want to tone up as I'm tired of being skinny, lol.

As a lot of you have already said it's willpower not going out there and buying it, but it's just tempting. And for a-lot of people they give into that temptation. Not because they're fat, but because some people don't have a strong willed mind and are constantly being brain washed by these adverts with 'cheap' prices for foods which are practically killing them.

Cigarette adverts have been banned and alcohol adverts have recently been cut (not shown as much) because of obvious reasons... they don't want to promote these things as it's unhealthy for you. Did you know last year over 30,000 people died due to obesity. I know obesity can be a medical condition but I'm guessing a huge proportion of these are food related and these sorts of adverts surely aren't helping the problem.

I just think that these adverts aren't helping obesity issues at all, they're making them worse. I know these places are businesses and need to make money and this is the way they make money by advertising on TV.
This article is really interesting and it's titled, "Half of UK obese by 2030". I've linked it for you to read: http://www.nhs.uk/news/2011/08August/Pages/half-of-uk-predicted-to-be-obese-by-2030.aspx
What's your view on this 'issue', if you think it's an issue? Or do you believe that this is perfectly okay? I'd like to know what you guys think.

EDIT: Here's just something I said earlier what I'll edit into the post as it's more of my opinion

Your entire argument hinges on the preconceived notion that disallowing advertisements of a certain thing villianizes it and makes people not want it. Fast food is cheap and easy. Health food is incredibly expensive in comparison and of the case were the opposite then we would have healthier citizens but we are no longer an agrarian society that relies on subsistance agriculture to feed itself. That means that we heavily rely on processed food because we are all in some form or fashion live on a hectic shedule. It really is difficult to come home from an 8 - 12 hour work day and have the will to stand in the kitchen for another hour and make a healthy dinner, then you factor in the cost of fresh produce and good quality lean meats. A healthy lifestyle is difficult for the modern person. So villianizing a business for a societal flaw is wrong.

Until they put an age restriction on buying fast food (lol) I highly doubt they will start banning the commercials. The commercials aren't even that bad. They almost always advertise their "healthy" selections in commercials.

Will power. It is honestly not that hard compared to real addictions.

I don't think you're seeing the point. I'm not saying "YES Let's 100% ban ALL fast food adverts tomorrow". It DOES come down to willpower and consumer choice I'm just stating the fact that obesity is a huge problem especially in America and Europe and it's affecting a huge number of peoples lives.

I just think the government could do something to help the situation. Yes you say the government can't run our lives but they can guide people and give them better options than are already out there.

As someone said previously it helps the economy enormously but surely there's other ways... I mean they haven't totally banned cigarretes because tax is so high on them that they simply can't ban them as the UK government , especially the NHS wouldn't survive.

I'm simply suggesting that this issue perhaps needs a bit more looking into and some people need guidance. You can't just say the government can't control our lives and people need willpower because it's not all about that. The government is a strong figure and can help tremendously. When they made the cigarrette ban in public places it was a great idea and because of that thousands more people decided to stop smoking. I'm just saying why can't something similar be implemented (IM NOT SAYING BAN) to help people out, because this is clearly an issue and is getting to the stage of it being an "addiction". Not in the sense that the brain and body requires it but the fact that it's totally acceptable for some people to have 3 fast food meals a day because it's deemed 'okay' in society now as fast food is being promoted so damn much.

 

[malakadang]

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