How to keep America dumb? Train them young.

FOXNews.com posted an article today called Kids Eat 100 Percent More After Food Commercials. In the UK at the University of Liverpool they conducted a survey with 60 children ranging in ages 9 to 11. They had them watch food and toy commercials before viewing a cartoon. Food intake increased dramatically when the children watched the food commercial before the cartoon. Obese children had an increase of food take at 134%, overweight at 101% and normals at 84%.

"Our research confirms food TV advertising has a profound effect on all children's eating habits - doubling their consumption rate," said Dr. Jason Halford, director of the university's Kissileff Human Ingestive Behaviour Laboratory, in a press statement released by the University of Liverpool. "The study was also particularly interesting in suggesting a strong connection between weight and susceptibility to over-eating."

Well, duh. I am no child and I can watch a commercial for an Applebee's dish and crave it within minutes and I think Applebee's is gnarly. I don't mean gnarly in the sense a surfer would use it. What I mean is that advertising is brainwashing. Every person seems to know this yet still are persuaded by it. Poor children, they are too innocent to know the ways of the advertising world so when they see that ad for the McDonald's Happy Meal, they want it and they want it now. I wouldn't be quite as sickened by this if say Yoplait yogurt, Subway, Tropicana, veggies and fruit commercials were aimed at kids but of course it's all fatty mcfat and sugary goods. All I have to say is, parents - where the hell are you and why are you letting your kids get so damned fat?

Blame Canada? No! Follow Canada!

Why is Canada so much better? They leave their doors unlocked and don't worry about their safety or theft, have lots of guns but very little violence problems, George Bush isn't their president and now Coca-Cola, McDonald's vow to make half their commercials health-focused. They know what's up and 15 companies in Canada have agreed to make half of their advertising health-conscious, especially the stuff targeted to kids.

It's nice to see some countries care, meanwhile our country is practically bursting out of their seams. Do I think people are dumb for listening to advertising and getting fatty fat? Yes. Do I think that advertising agencies have something to do with the evil promotion and are responsible for this epidemic? Yes. AMERICA CHANGE YOUR WAYS!

The total for your burger and fries is your manhood.

I was surfing the net looking for info on fast food advertising not related to child obesity (which seems to be endless, by the way) and I found this article:

Fast-Food Chains Buck The Healthy Trend

I found this very interesting and something I noticed recently. Save for Subway, most other fast food chains have dropped the healthy bit and shimmied back into to fatties. Remember the good ol' days when McDonald's was trying to save face after Super-Size Me and added tons of "healthier" items and even a pedometer in an adult happy meal? Remember?? Americans are back to their old antics and chowing down giant burgers at an alarming rate. Why? Cause advertising says it's okay now! Who knew this blog would change directions from unthoughtful ads to strictly hating what advertising does to people (I still hate unthoughtful ads though, duh). I decided to research red meat because I've heard time and time again about how red meat pretty much rots in your bod. Lo and behold, numerous articles state high red meat consumption puts you in much greater risk for colon cancer and prostate cancer. Did ya hear that guys? Prostate cancer. Burger for your balls to put it poetically.

My new dream in life is to get hired to do the advertising for either McDonald's, Burger King, etc. and then secretly switch their commerical with one depicting a colonoscopy of a man with one testicle screaming "no more fast food" and then fade to black and in text run the name of whatever fast food company it is. I wonder how people will react to THAT fast food commerical. Hmm, maybe I should just contact truth.