"Want the best? Get your vitamins from an amber glass bottle, NOT a can of diet soda."
Um, I generally try to get my vitamins from vegetables. But thanks anyway.
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2 comments:
Many years ago, I heard a radio ad for citrus-flavored, vitamin-enhanced cough drops that basically blasted actual citrus fruit as being messy and difficult to eat, in contrast to the neatness and ease of the cough drops. This ad isn't QUITE along those lines, but I'm detecting some similarities.
Does anyone drink diet soda for the vitamins? If so, the end of civilization may be closer than we thought...
Heh. Anyone else remember all the "woooorld of tomorrow" stuff that touted "meal pills" as the ideal aim of cuisine? No thanks. I'll take my commensality with a side of kale, please.
And yes, Marion, unfortunately they do. The "jelly bean rule" that allows foods to be marketed as medicine so long as vitamin C/herbs/crack cocaine/whatever is included in their ingredient list has spawned a really weird advertising culture. Sadly, it works: my mom loves to tell me how "healthy" her most recent junk food infatuation is, when a glance at the ingredient list says otherwise.
I strongly recommend Food Politics by Marion Nestle as a horrifying/interesting read, if you haven't given it a look. It's worthwhile and hair-raising, which is what I look for in a book. :)
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