How TV Provides Nutritional “Education”
November 8, 2009 at 4:33 am 1 comment
Here are some amazing (and very sad) facts:
I just learned that by the time the average American graduates from high school, he or she has watched 360,000 ads on television. Yes, three-hundred-sixty-thousand.
The majority of these are food ads, and now here it comes: 95 % of the advertised foods are actually unhealthy. Speak of nutritional education, or rather indoctrination. A bad ad or two might not influence a person right away, but thousands and thousands of junk-food ads? Who can withstand that kind of brainwashing, especially as a child?
Clearly, laissez-faire capitalism doesn’t have the answers here.
Entry filed under: Current Events, Education/Homeschooling. Tags: advertisements for kids, capitalism, children, health, junk food, laissez-faire capitalism, TV.
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