Healthy Diet Rant
I was sitting at one of my favourite cafés and while sipping on my cappuccino I was watching the news on the big screen TV. There are some things that really get up my nose and that is those ads that promote healthy foods and dieting. Not because the foods that they are promoting are healthy or the fact that the ads are about dieting, but the fact that the makers of those ads use girls or men who are slim.
Those men and women have no need to lose weight and yet they portray those ‘good foods’ as wonderful items to make slim people… slimmer.
Come on world… this is a real world and it is time the makers of products and advertisements used their heads a little. If they really wanted people who needed to lose weight to be healthy or to live a healthy lifestyle, then come up with an ad that portrays women who are a little overweight and how the those foods will benefit them. Have it as a progressive ad…
Of course the ad that I saw this morning was something of a sad ad really. It showed a woman who had children and she was trying to eat what she could fit through a straw. Now I am not sure if the makers of these ads do any research at all, but most know that some women gain a little weight when they have children, some even have trouble losing it. The comparison was done with a young lady, with obviously no children and her figure was a nice slim one.
But another moment to reflect with that ad was the woman was trying to eat what she could fit through a straw. For people who have had the lap band operation are too well aware of that saying. There is one doctor here in Australia who tells his patients when they first have the operation that there intake should be minimal and you can have what you can fit through a straw.
I’m not looking for sympathy here, but the makers of those ads should really take into consideration every person in the world before making those ads. Remember that most people are not slim and others have issues that go way beyond what many would consider text book cases.
Toni