What If You Only Ate Food in TV Ads?
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If you were to only eat food that was advertised on television, you would be in a terrible state and in the hospital before you knew it.
Your diet would consist of huge amounts of sugar and fat with hardly any fresh fruit and vegetables, according to researchers from Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia. They looked at what would happen if someone ate 2,000 calories a day only from foods that were advertised on TV.
They analyzed the food advertised during 84 hours of prime time broadcasts and 12 hours of Saturday morning broadcasts during one month in 2004.
Based on that, a daily diet of food from TV ads would include 25 times the recommended servings of sugar, 20 times the recommended servings of fat and Less than half the recommended servings of vegetables, fruit and dairy products.
And that was 2004. Just imagine if they did this today.
Last Updated on July 14th, 2010
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