Copywriters Are To Blame for the Ignorance Taking Over the Planet!

As a mother myself, I'm all too familiar with the 'next fad' being preached en masse as you suggest...

But common sense has to kick-in somewhere. I don't know if anyone saw hungry for change (HUNGRY FOR CHANGE ® | Hungry For Change Home) but I have to tell you - it opened my eyes WIDE!

You see, (and I'll tell you guys now that my weight is a sensitive issue) for years I've battled with the weight since having my kids. When the diet industry said eat low fat, I ate low fat.

When they told me eat low carb, I did just that. I even tried the evil Atkins diet and the Dukan diet which was created by a Dr...and in it (shock, horror ) he recommended ditching sugar and replacing with aspartame.

When I didn't lose the weight promised, I had to seriously question why. And then (and Mark Andrews knows I had severe problems with this) my teeth kept breaking. In 4 months, my teeth have cracked and broken 4 times...in fact, I was in the dental chair today having a crown fitting.

Then I found I was getting severe digestive problems which were causing me misery. So when I watched Hungry for Change, it knocked me for 6. Now I KNOW EXACTLY WHY I WASN'T losing weight!

Because the food industries employ good copywriters to perpetuate the myths of their 'diet'. Ok, not totally blaming them, because we all have a choice, but they make the foods or the new diets sound irresistible - There's a reason the word 'die' is in diet

So my reaction? I've thrown out the aspartame (did you know pilots are forbidden to drink diet cola? That's because the artificial sweeteners ROT your brain and can lead to visual problems), ditched the white sugar and stopped bringing food with MSG in it (look up MSG obesity induced mice and you'll understand why).

Diet foods don't make you slim - they make you fat and SICK and keep you hooked by feeding you the promise their rubbish manufactured food is going to make you slim...

Ever heard of people dying from eating whole foods?

So, I'm now on day 3 of my detox - I've had NOTHING but pure fruit and vegetables juiced up and water. My son has severe eczema, and I went spare trying to find a remedy for him. I stopped the processed food and gave him fruit and veg juice...after one week, his eczema has finally stopped bleeding and started to heal.

As for me, I cook 90% of my meals from scratch and MSG is a no-go for me. The meat is on the back burner and instead we're having more fish. I've switched the eggs to organic and now the milk will be organic too.

As a copywriter myself, I'm ashamed to admit I totally fell for every diet out there - all dressed up to be the 'cure' by other copywriters. 3 days of detoxing and my skin looks amazing, I've got tons of energy and I've dropped 3lbs.

And my kids aren't as hyper anymore. In my family, we have a history of heart disease, diabetes and 2 years ago, my father had most of his stomach removed from cancer. He is still sick to this day...

And now, we just found out that my brother's best friend who is just 29 and has two young children has to have his rectum removed (he already had his lower colon removed last year) from cancer. We are all praying for him to get better soon...

...and it all stemmed from poor food choices dressed up as 'healthy'

It's ironic how we die in the West due to too much food, whereas people in the third world die from a lack of it. That's messed up.

If we eat like our ancestors did - lots of fresh produce and occasional meat, we will be fine. We make it far more complicated than it is, and we have our lovely food industries, advertising agencies and copywriters to partially thank for the 68% of Americans and 40% of Europeans who are obese - the rest is really up to us to do our due diligence and learn the truth ourselves.

Copywriters aren't to blame for the rampant ignorance infecting our society, individuals are to blame for their own ignorance. Between books, the internet and everything in between you can learn anything you want, you just have to put forth the effort.

Copywriting is just one aspect to advertizing so you can't place all the blame for everything on the writers.

Copywriters and advertising people are also responsible for the viral (bad word to use in this case) marketing campaign "Got Milk?"

I've read that they're also responsible for why you need to add an egg into instant cake mix, it makes people feel like they're a baker.

You guys should hear what George Carlin had to say about marketers.

Atkins is not a scam. But it will kill you over time. Once you go off it (and everyone always does) you will gain weight. Losing and gaining repeatedly causes things like type 2 diabetes.

Check out "Eat To Live" by Dr. Fuhrman. It is based on healthy eating principles that are medically time tested. It ain't easy to follow, but far better than jumping on and off of diets.

In a nutshell: Eat mostly fruits and veges. Then whole grains, beans and legumes. A little meat. No sugar and white flour.

Is it propaganda if it is true?

-Ray Edwards

Who eats steak without a nice bottle of red wine?

If eating steak possessed any risk, certainly the benefits of drinking red wine offset that

Perhaps someone should study how this combination affects ones ability to write copy...

I like how it has actual food groups, then randomly throws "protein" in there.

Try working out some more, because it doesn't appear you quite got all the sludge out.

First of all, this is not the place to post rants about dietary topics.

And second, like Colm said, your post is hypocritical. You write copy to persuade people for a living, and yet you rant against people writing copy to persuade people.

Sheesh.

VL

I believe it's the processing of the food that really makes the big difference.

And who knows what GM food really does to you? I mean, they can change the DNA for all I care - but certain research has shown food giving unknown allergies like when the food contains lectin that isn't supposed to be there. And then the nut sufferers go nuts.

And oh well - packaging. What a damn fine job they did. I heard they kick coleslaw across the floor over here. And meat sludge grosses me out. Imagine a chicken's head with the eyeballs being grinded into sludge.

However.... Nah. I'm never ditching meat.

But as the saying goes... "Copy cannot educate people."

It's been a century of campaigns. We can't reverse that.

-wittyblogger

Well, Don't you think it's quite unfair to blame copywriters for the ignorance taking over the world? Especially since people have been hunting and eating meat before they began copywriting.