So try to remove yourself from Wisconsin first, then react. I understand the point of the ad and yes, it's true...cheese isn't exactly the best food for you. At the same time, there are far worse things you could be eating and while they point out cheese is the number one source of bad fat in most Americans diets, it's also a good source for other things that are GOOD for you...
I guess my problem with ads like this is that they aren't saying "lessen your intake" which we should probably do, they are more showing a message that says "stop eating cheese," which I don't think is the best advice. It's important to inform people about the food they eat, but you have to do it on a realistic level. Would you want a billboard saying how many carbs are in bread? Should we take out a billboard that says "Bread causes heart disease"?
Most people would say probably not. I'm not even gonna touch the cheeshead part, I'm not a lawyer, but the overall message needs to be rethinked. In a world where we can drive to McDonalds and order King Size Sodas, 2,000 calorie burgers, and grease covered fries I don't think the message "don't eat cheese" is helping us get by our real weight problems....
I guess i just want to say...Im not against telling people what's bad or good for you. I just think that we need to be careful with what and how we say it. Telling people that they shouldn't eat cheese is not a good thing to do, and doing so will result in some people cutting it out of their diets when they probably shouldn't completely. People believe what they read and if something has bad and good things about it, we can't just tell them the bad things...Learning how to eat right is much more valuable than being told what to do, and I think we should try to start moving that direction.
http://www.wisn.com/news/29315727/detail.html
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