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Old May 16th, 2004, 11:19 AM
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"leebee" wrote in message
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Promote gluttony and obesity.
"How many do *you* eat ?"


9 weetbix is around 150 grams of sugar (almost a cup!), just have 2 good
bowls of icecream instead.

I mean, we're talking about pro-sportsmen here. They can eat nine, and

then
go to the gym for the morning, or do 20x laps of the Olympic pool....


agreed, but I don't think that even brett could keep up and use the spike of
150g. I don't know much about nutrition but eating that much sugar everyday
(as the ad suggests) can't be good for you.

For the average Aussie kid to eat 9x weet-bix for brekky, is saying hello

to
a lard-arse in no time at all.


you're absolutly right, but usually grain based food is considered healthly,
and ad's like this one reinforce that.

Cereal and cake are of the same food group, your body doesn't know the
difference but for an ad the cereal can be sold as healthy because it is
bland and eating MORE of a bland thing must be good for you right?

But kids love their sporting heroes, and want to be like them. I reckon
it's wrong.


george doesn't!

Cereal companies are worse than tobacco companies as they can advertise
where they want, still use kids and all under the guise of good health, it's
'filter cigarettes' all over again.

I'm going to market a 'breakfast cake' that has less sugar than weet bix
(not hard) or those bloody k-time bars (actually hard to make cake that
sweet) and advertise less sugar than any breakfast cereal, I wonder how many
slices of my cake george gregan will munch down for me.

oh, and nutri grain ads, where's my gun...


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Old May 16th, 2004, 05:42 PM
freeborn
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Default Weet-bix ads

Promote gluttony and obesity.
"How many do *you* eat ?"


9 weetbix is around 150 grams of sugar (almost a cup!), just have 2 good
bowls of icecream instead.

I mean, we're talking about pro-sportsmen here. They can eat nine, and

then
go to the gym for the morning, or do 20x laps of the Olympic pool....


agreed, but I don't think that even brett could keep up and use the spike

of
150g. I don't know much about nutrition but eating that much sugar

everyday
(as the ad suggests) can't be good for you.

For the average Aussie kid to eat 9x weet-bix for brekky, is saying

hello
to
a lard-arse in no time at all.


you're absolutly right, but usually grain based food is considered

healthly,
and ad's like this one reinforce that.

Cereal and cake are of the same food group, your body doesn't know the
difference but for an ad the cereal can be sold as healthy because it is
bland and eating MORE of a bland thing must be good for you right?

But kids love their sporting heroes, and want to be like them. I reckon
it's wrong.


george doesn't!

Cereal companies are worse than tobacco companies as they can advertise
where they want, still use kids and all under the guise of good health,

it's
'filter cigarettes' all over again.

I'm going to market a 'breakfast cake' that has less sugar than weet bix
(not hard) or those bloody k-time bars (actually hard to make cake that
sweet) and advertise less sugar than any breakfast cereal, I wonder how

many
slices of my cake george gregan will munch down for me.

oh, and nutri grain ads, where's my gun...

hee hee hee ..

*


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Old May 17th, 2004, 01:06 PM
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XMB wrote in

"leebee" wrote in message
Promote gluttony and obesity.
"How many do *you* eat ?"


9 weetbix is around 150 grams of sugar (almost a cup!), just have 2 good
bowls of icecream instead.


no its not, weetbix is low in sugar high in taste.

9 weetbix is around 150 grams of complex carbohydrates. no added sugar.

Herc



 




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