Television and Radio

[cutlass6521 126]

Has anyone else noticed all the commercials on the television and radio lately? They bomb us with food commercials day and night, over and over. The worst offenders have to be KFC and McDonalds.

I spent a week visiting my elderly father, and the seniors love their TV. That TV is on from the time he gets up to the time he goes to bed. At 6 am the KFC and McDonalds and the Little Ceasars commercials start in. After a couple of days of this I was craving fried chicken, a BigMac and pizza pizza.< /p>

Turn on the radio, and in the middle of the traffic report--more fast food companies luring us over to their side.

No wonder we all have a food addiction. Forget the subliminal messages, this crap is up front and in your face!!

These advertisers are even hitting the cartoon channels. Junior can start asking for a dinner of chicken nuggets and fries early in the day.

Wow!!!

[Aliciafl2014 57]

Then at the same time we are bombarded with messages of beauty being young and thin. When you step back and see all if the conflicting messages we receive it's overwhelming.

[gowalking 10,790]

It's one of the many reasons I don't watch nearly the amount of TV I used to. Besides...there's so much more to do now that I have my mobility back.

[WhoKnows 288]

All the more reason to switch from radio to podcasts (or at least NPR) and to ditch the TV and just use Netflix or something on the computer. We can't shut ourselves off from ads entirely, but we can definitely minimize it. Also, I suggest installing Adblock Plus on your browser:

https://adblockplus.org/en/chrome

[Kissifur 244]

I just notice this last night. When I ate whatever I wanted I just looked at it as dinner ideas but now that I am on full liquids it is highly annoying.

[Kelly Gonzalez 52]

You seem to notice all the advertisements more when you do the liquid diet pre-op, and then post-op. I never thought much about them till then, and also all the billboards, then all the fast food restaurants, and restaurants in general. Everything seems to stand out more, funny I suppose, but that's what it's intended for. Glad you posted about this, thought it was just me, lol..

[BeagleLover 1,020]

Has anyone else noticed all the commercials on the television and radio lately? They bomb us with food commercials day and night, over and over. The worst offenders have to be KFC and McDonalds.

I spent a week visiting my elderly father, and the seniors love their TV. That TV is on from the time he gets up to the time he goes to bed. At 6 am the KFC and McDonalds and the Little Ceasars commercials start in. After a couple of days of this I was craving fried chicken, a BigMac and pizza pizza.< /p>

Turn on the radio, and in the middle of the traffic report--more fast food companies luring us over to their side.

No wonder we all have a food addiction. Forget the subliminal messages, this crap is up front and in your face!!

These advertisers are even hitting the cartoon channels. Junior can start asking for a dinner of chicken nuggets and fries early in the day.

Wow!!!

Let the kids ask... it doesn't mean you have to go. It can be a teaching moment, for example, how this or that is not healthy, and you can show them how to cook something similar that is much healthier!

[ProudGrammy 8,322]

food commercials

@@cutlass6521

i ALAYS tape my tv shows (good wife et al) I don't have the patience or time to sit through any commercials (especially the food ones)

kids see all types of Cereal (sugary of couse ) Cookies, candies, chips et al

also, many cola commercials at the beginning of movies at the theater

you can't go anywhere without seeing/hearing about food

as @@WhoKnows said correctly below:

same time we are bombarded with messages of beauty being young and thin. step back and see the conflicting messages we receive it's overwhelming.

kathy

Edited June 15, 2014 by proudgrammy