If you asked the average person what the biggest threat is to their country, their family, or their community, what do you think they’d say? Pollution? Economic conditions? Crime? I say nay, good citizen. Your enemy is the insidious JUNK FOOD that lurks in your pantry, your convenience store, and your vending machines.
The junk food industry probably has some nice people in it. But they are definitely doing some not nice things. Let’s air their dirty laundry now!
- The junk food industry deliberately targets kids as young as two years old in order to create brand preference and lifelong loyalty.
- Fast food chains lure kids with free toys in their meals to get their parents to spend.
- Flavorings and colorings can cause rashes, asthma, and hyperactivity.
- Many children now prefer man-made flavors over real food!
- The average kid in the U.S. sees 25 hours of TV, which equates to 20,000 junk food ads a year! That’s a lot of brainwashing…
- 20% of kids under the age of two are given soft drinks by their parents! When my nephew was two, he did not need Mountain Dew. He needed to be shot with a tranquilizer dart.
- The average can of cola has 10 teaspoons of sugar. Picture that.
- Over 90% of children eat McDonalds at least once per month.
- American teenagers drink, on average, over 760 cans of soda per year!
Drum roll please……
And the TENTH junk food fact that is off-the-wall-ridiculous:
10. The average person day consumes more sugar in TWO WEEKS than a person a century ago would consume in a whole YEAR.
I know. I know. It blew my mind as well. Somehow people 100 years ago still survived their workday without draining over TWO cans (20 teaspoons, as we now know) of sugary crap drink.
Now that I’ve opened your eyes to the deadly advertising all around you and your children, I bet you’re going to retreat into the wilderness to hide. Fear not! We can counter this marketing movement of junk food advertising and consumption with responsible eating habits and educating kids to not believe the stupid commercials they see.
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