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Nowadays, it is impossible to live without being exposed to a variety of commercials. Companies selling unhealthy food are also trying to increase their profits by advertising and exaggerating their products. In this respect, I agree with the statement that advertisement is the main cause of unhealthy eating habits.
First off, companies selling unhealthy food keep trying to lure consumers by advertising their products. Commercials often glamorize junk food to lure people and it influence people to eat it without concerning about their health. According to the study about the relevance between the frequency of advertisements and the variation of sales amount, it is revealed that the more frequently people are exposed to the advertisement, the more sales amount increase. Thus, I strongly believe that people are attempted to eat junk food by being exposed to its commercial.
Moreover, commercials promoting unhealthy food often describe it as healthy food. In commercial promoting frozen food, we often see that mother prepare frozen food for her children and children look happy while having it. After seeing this commercial, people are prone to being attempted to consume frozen food because they get an impression that frozen food is health home-made food. According to the research conducted by Ministry of Food in Korea, it is turned out that 75% of companies advertising frozen food have exaggerated its nutrition and described their products as healthy food in its advertisements.
For those reasons stated above, I think that advertisement is the main cause of unhealthy eating habits.
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