Friday Favorites: The Role of Marketing and Food Advertisements in the Obesity Epidemic
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- The unprecedented rise in the power, scope, and sophistication of food marketing starting around 1980 aligns with the skyrocketing of the obesity epidemic. We like to think we make important life decisions like what to eat consciously and rationally, but if that were the case, we wouldn’t be in the midst of an obesity epidemic.
I think most of us think we’re too smart to fall for marketing ploys, but are we really seeing through them? This is part of a comprehensive video series on obesity, which started with:
• The Role of Diet vs. Exercise in the Obesity Epidemic (nutritionfacts....)
• The Role of Genes in the Obesity Epidemic (nutritionfacts...)
• The Thrifty Gene Theory: Survival of the Fattest (nutritionfacts....)
• Cut the Calorie-Rich-And-Processed Foods (nutritionfacts....)
• The Role of Processed Foods in the Obesity Epidemic (nutritionfacts....)
• The Role of Taxpayer Subsidies in the Obesity Epidemic (nutritionfacts....)
The three remaining videos are:
• The Role of Personal Responsibility in the Obesity Epidemic (nutritionfacts...)
• The Role of Corporate Influence in the Obesity Epidemic (nutritionfacts...)
• The Role of the Toxic Food Environment in the Obesity Epidemic (nutritionfacts...)
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A lot of UK supermarkets have committed to removing the junk food from checkout areas and instead stock them with snack packs of nuts, dried fruit, and 'healthier' bars such as those made from dates. It's a small step, but at least it's in a more positive direction of travel.
That is a great idea!! ❤
❤and change the “fiduciary responsibilities” to ALSO look at long term health of customers. Too many big investors have turned “investing” into a money grab for the near term.
These videos deserve more views! Your work is highly appreciated, Dr. Greger.
Dr. Greger is the real G in the Nutrition Science community.
So disturbing! Thank you for sharing this information!
Thank you, Dr G
I'm a Greger Too. I Love this dude😃 He cracks me up. i've got 4 years eating clean and damn proud of it too😁
In Germany, some polizicians wanted to ban commercials for sweets and junk. Other parties argued, that this would impair our freedom.
I'm not certain it's necessary to ban the advertising so long as the education is there. I would side with freedom too. I'm free to block the ads out of my life and so is everyone else. I think it's more important to inform people of their options.
@@limitisillusion7 This ban should protect children - if the commercials would not work, the sweet and junk industry would not pay billions for them.
@@Alexander-ok7fm Or should we encourage parents to protect their children from the ads? We are basically trading one form of control for another. No matter what you do with the ads, we create an authoritarian movement to encourage certain behavior. The prerequisite for banning the ads is a movement from voters that recognize their harm. But if that movement is there, you don't need the ban because people will voluntarily choose better nutrition on their own and the market would adjust the ads accordingly. I think it takes a huge mistake like our food industry to create a movement like that to correct course.
In that light, the example of the results of the fruit salad/chocolate cake experiment given by Dr. Gregor in the video aren't likely as applicable to people who watch a UA-cam channel called NutritionFacts as the obese population. I know for a fact my nutrition has improved despite my ad viewership remaining about the same. While it's an anecdote, it does prove that it's possible to change the magnitude to which the conscious mind overcomes the unconscious mind in respect to diet. That's the message I want to send people: "Take control of yourself by believing in yourself, and you will be rewarded. Oh and by the way, here's a million examples of other people who paved the path for you." I find it less inspiring to tell people they probably can't overcome their unconscious mind so we need to protect the children from the food industry. And again, without widespread support, how do we expect these ads to be banned? Cigarettes had to destroy a lot of lives before we learned.
In the UK the BBC shows no adverts. Some people, such as myself, never watch the commercial (advert funded) channels.
Wonder if anyone has looked to see if BBC viewers are less likely to be obese?
Love this, somebody look at this please 🥦💖
Brilliant. Exceptional information, Dr. G. Thank you. This video came just at the right time as I am writing an article related to this topic as we speak. These perspectives are most useful. I always wrestle when ‘selling’ healthy plant-based diets, about the free choice piece. The last article in the video is just the citation I need. Very effective analogy regarding sub-liminal carcinogens and chemicals in our foods. You are a ‘knowledge translator’ par excellence, I cite your evidence syntheses frequently. Professor-Elizabeth
Almost as bad in the Netherlands too, though the European rules are much stricter
Good at least Europe understands real food and doesn’t manipulate it for monetary gain.
@@slimelove3493I wish that were more true
@@slimelove3493 not really. And US pressure weakens EU day by day.
Horrifying. I was distressed at all the complaints about the first part of How Not To Diet when this sort of influence is a big factor in the poor choices being made. How can you counteract manipulation if you don't recognize it? The beef, egg, and dairy subsidies are another bugaboo but I can't get started on that.
Greed is going to be the end of civilization. Keep pushing against the tidal wave with science, Dr G and NutritionFacts Team.
I had a dream about you last night Dr Greger! Thats how much i must watch your videos, listen to your podcasts and read your 📚!
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Gracias por informarnos.
OMG this drives me insane!!! Like WHY are you telling me to eat your food like it’s a hot new toy??? It’s FOOD not a product! I think it’s really masochistic but so normalized. I’ll be watching tv and it cuts to commercial break of a close up of cheese dripping down the fried rippled sides of a towering whopper, how rude! What if I shoved my dinner in their face?! Why are these products pretending to be food??? It’s like some sick twisted Ari Aster horror film but it’s just America.
Nope. It's most if not all of the world (in varying degrees)... "Thanks" to American Capitalism and "world policing" a.k.a. destroying cultures and societies all over the world with wars to plunder them then generously rebuild them in the American way. And they call servitude freedom. 1984 wasn't intended to be a manual but it did became one.
I love Dr. Greger! He’s full of so much information. I appreciate it! ❤
I thought these are widely known facts. And these are true everywhere. An industry is that, an industry. And all profit oriented industries are driven by profit not the health of people or the planet.
And it is all subliminal. It was cool to see (ages ago) back in uni how it worked. Showing sounds and pictures (ads) to ppl while they were in a pet scan, and measuring EEG while simultaneously tracking eye movements. Temperatures in different parts of the body. This is how it's made.
Those participants in the wine study weren't denying anything. They told what they thought to be the truth.
Our biggest fallacy is that we think we are thinking beings while in fact we are mostly instinct driven animals like any other, predictably responding to stimuli.
I just read of a young woman, in her twenties, who had hyper-tension, advanced cardiovascular disease and diabetes at a weight of two hundred and sixty pounds. Apparently, since everyone in her family was obese and diabetic she didn't feel she was seriously ill. She got pregnant and the added strain on her heart killed her. But before she died her husband was bringing her favorite soda pop to her hospital bed! How can people be so disconnected and fail to exercise some self-preservation? Well, industry is doing a good job of promoting its death-dealing products, but ultimately we all 'vote' with our grocery dollars.
Thank you for this valuable information Dr Greger.
The line must go up!
Thank you so much for covering
The abuse of money is the root of a lot of evil in the world today.
Fascinating!
Industry and marketing is also at least partly responsible for why our communities and roadways are not constructed in a way that is safe for pedestrians, cyclists and other forms of exercise and non-motor travel. We pay a lot for roads, cars and other personal motor vehicles that profit large companies. Much less is spent for environmentally cleaner public transportation. Exceedingly little is spent to make communities easy to traverse through human movement. The way the system works, it is far too easy to eat too much and move too little.
Great point!
Exactly! Not to mention the modern road network was first invented and built for bicycles, with pedestrian sidewalks and/or for mixed use. Then cars took over.
Shipping, chemical industries, electronics and post "green revolution" agribusiness are the biggest pollutants and the killers of our planet.
All driven by the same environment, created by greed and short time personal gain of the very few.
Dr is looking better year after year 🔥🤘🌱
Thanks
Corporate interests ruin pretty much everything, it seems.
I so agree. Indeed, corporate interests have ‘insidiously’ infiltrated all aspects of human existence particularly over the past 30 - 40 years. The public grew used to the increasing corporate influence over time. Politicians need to be at arm’s length from corporate influence and ‘lobbying’ politicians needs to be banned as unlawful. Politicians’ agendas need to be informed by science and evidence. Based on that, the commercial world can take its directive. When will the public wake-up as it is only in this way, when the public demands change, will politicians and corporations be motivated to ‘behave’ differently. The ‘common good’ needs always to be top priority - non negotiable. Professor-Elizabeth
Wait.... so... Capitalism bad? Color me surprised.
Well when you consider the level of government intervention it's hardly free-market.
The problem is the corporate takeover of our government, coming from the right wing since Reagan.
Actually, it was Republican Nixon who made healthcare for-profit.
@Spock_Rogers Yes. But at the same time, he worked to create comprehensive health care for everyone. His plan was more sweeping than Obama's. The lowest earners would pay zero premiums. He wanted fixed rates for prescriptions and procedures.
Ted Kennedy, who was running on the same issue, came close to backing it. But walked away under pressure from unions.
@Spock_Rogers And just in case you misunderstood my OP.... it was intended to convey that capitalism is indeed bad.
In a corporation, the consumers aren't the customers, the stockholders are. Btw where can I get those vitamin donuts?
The cigarette companies pay the most for counter positions. They paid even more before the big settlement back when. Maybe they've caught back up to the previous amounts with all the product placement and increased pushing of nicotine and alcohol in nearly every TV show made for America. Advertisers and Marketing are insidious creatures of the short-term profits-uber-alles (stockholder supremacy) bastardization of the companies we used to have. The policy helped some rich get richer but the in the trenches things have declined in many areas.
How cool , we be vegetarian, we dig brokely, more for us ! 🥦
I call the checkout queue shelves ‘sin alley’. ;)
Our system is sick. Between war, pollution, and unhealthy foods, profits are more important than the well-being of the citizens. It doesn't seem right. Whatever happened to the "common good"?
@@CRM-114 I wish I knew what to do about it.
@@CRM-114 I'm tryin'... I'm definitely not the consumer I used to be. I'm trying to adopt a more minimalist lifestyle.
Governments really should ban the advertising of junk food …
Dr G. Seinfield
Hello. I had a heart attack last April. I am a vegan , non smoker non drinker and was running during my heart attack. Turns out I have elevated lpa. Coming up to my hear anniversary and will be off brilinta and metoprolol. The want me on continued statin and aspirin. Thoughts on nattokanaise vs aspirin?
This is a nutrition channel.
Just googled high LPa 😊
pharmaceutical ads are the worst! images of dancing happy people while they list the myriad 'side effects'. they must work or they'd be off by now!
And that chipper voice saying '...which may cause death...'
We actually have fun with those commercials, like "wait for it, wait...wait... Hahaha, did you hear that one, causes a rash, etc". Sometimes I rewind them because they spit them out so fast...also they spit them out like " yeah, it's nothin, talk to your doctor about how to get it! Lol
@@jpbowl12x36 Yeah, like the weight loss drug that caused @n@l seepage. I think it was Jeff Foxworthy who said 'if you get that side effect no matter how much weight you lose you're not looking good in those jeans'
Yay
But the advertisers have now acurately figured out that it is actualy the rice, corn, and grains that are keeping us fat and causing all of the type 2 diabetes. Have to give them credit to moving on from the "lack of excersise" and low-fat messenging of the 90's since that clearly didn't put a dent on growing obesety.
If people stopped buying and eating junk, it would go away.
So Capitalism is blamed for eating bad too?
@@CRM-114 OK, next question: How to get rid of capitalism? Only Cuba and North Korea had remained non-capitalist nations and with all imposed embargoes, heavy sanctions, and CIA terrorist intervention threats, those countries aren't so good to live in.
Last month, Facebook was all about amulets to protect you from emf. This month, it's hydrogenated water. What a load.
Yes marketing works, but sugar is the main drug
What is this "extra calories started pouring into the food supply" garbage? That's misleading. Why don't you just say there was a rise in Junk Food?
It would take him too long to explain what he means by that and he doesn’t have enough time during this short video.
Processed food includes oil
Add on all the animal products that are high in saturated fats, such as meat, dairy and eggs.
The guy looks incredibly unhealthy.
the presenter? he is a world authority on longevity science hahaha
@@angrymurloc7626 he might be in authority on longevity, but he sure doesn’t look healthy.
@@angrymurloc7626 . It’s hilarious you’re hilarious. “He’s a world authority on longevity science.” Look at him that’s like an obese person, being authority on how to be in fit, and in shape. He’s a scientist he’s a scientist, so that must mean he knows the holy Grail..🙄
@@nadagabri5783 tell that to him again when he is 110
@@angrymurloc7626 a true believer 🙄