Thank goodness for our betters watching out for us from the Ministry of Truth.

Who was it who said, two legs good, one leg better?

The article quotes Bob Garfield who has gigs with Advertising Age and On the Media saying this is not such a big deal.

But I'm not sure what he would say when models are photoshopped thin, or when OJ is photoshopped darker, or Iran photoshops in working, flying missiles.

I just heard this on the news. The response was something like - when the soda industry stops using actors in their ads we will also.

The response was something like - when the soda industry stops using actors in their ads we will also.

Great! I always wanted to do commercials for my favorite sodas. Or would that make me an actor?

Barqs, Dr. Pepper, Moutain Dew, Coke Zero sign me up!

Fake but accurate!

I think the majority of diabetic amputations occurs in smokers. I don't know if it's just because smoking constricts the blood vessels or if it's because more people who don't smoke also tend to try to control their blood sugar better. Really, diabetes doesn't cause all the complications, uncontolled diabetes does.

Let's just be thankful they didn't use a female model named Ilene.

"Portions have grown. So has Type 2 diabetes, which can lead to amputations."

And as wild government-claim health warnings have proliferated, so has public cynicism, which can (and IMHO most likely has already) led to more overeating.

So, cute job there guys. I'll be thinking of your ad tonight while I'm gently sipping a Dr. Pepper and enjoying the fine cuisine at Buffalo Wild Wings. ;-)

nonegiven (12:13 PM)
Yeah, I have a neighbor a couple doors down that has mostly uncontrolled diabetes and doesn't seem to do much for it. He's got lesions all over his legs yet I see him drinking too many beers and smoking all the time. His mom lives with him too (or vice versa for all I know) and he'll even basically sneak down to the corner with his beer to drink it out of her sight or something.

I guess the paramedics used to come all the time for her issues too, so I'm guessing neither really takes care of themselves.

I was working at home once when they came and 2 other neighbors were chatting with the EMTs and me and filling me in. The EMTs even 1/2 jokingly commented as they left, "See you again in a few weeks."

It's a fitting image, considering how the nutrition industry has cut its own legs out from under it. qdpsteve is right; the public now ignores health warnings because so many of them have turned out to be agenda-driven bogosity. Does coffee cause cancer or cure it? Or does it do both at the same time?

Nutrition "science" needs to go back to 1950 and start over from there.

Dh's Gma and my uncle have both lost legs to Type 1 diabetes. She smoked and drank, he's never touched either. It's a decent warning. Anyone who assumes the people in ads are the true people in these situations is ripe for some Arizona oceanfront property.

Does that mean that guy in the jaunty "You don't always die from tobacco" ad didn't lose a lung?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuh2w2sFRMI

Cousin Dave is exactly right. How do you know if what you doing is helping or hurting or indifferent?

Real or fake - I don't care; what I do care is that tax dollars are used for this. With tight budgets why is tax money spent on "public service announcements"?

The government lies? I could have told you this on February 6, 1971. There I was, standing on some yellow footprints at Parris Island... Just kidding, I knew what I was getting into, then.

Fast forward to the present. The government is taking money from me to "invest" in stuff that you really do need a gun to get me to buy. Solyndra, TARP, the TSA, a 9% "unemployment" rate that doesn't even count half those that want to work, an inflation rate that doesn't include the expensive stuff you have to buy.

What went wrong?