▶ Your Answer : some people might say that commercial is not primary cause of unhealthy eating habits. However,in my opinion, advertisement has a huge impact on eating habits especially unhealthy one. There are two reasons. First, people tend to make bad habits when they are exposed to it frequently. Second, advertisement is usually emphasis on product's merits rather than disadvantages. To begin wih, advertising has a great impact on people. A wide variety of people including the old, the child, the man, the woman are exposed to diverse commercial in a daily life. When they watch or listen about the unhealthy food frequently, they are easy to bring it in mind and it leads to make bad habits. For instance, I will talk about my cousin's case. She is very interested in watching baseball games on television. Whenever she watches it, the Burger King's advertisement is always broadcasted together. So she tends to order it every night. According to her, even she has enough dinner, it stimulates her appetite again. Therefore, she is always overeating and eat unhealthy food because of the daily advertisement. On top of that, advertising exists to sell products. To sell products, they focus on the advantages of it rather than its shortcoming. They can introduce their unhealth food like using great ingredients. For instance, there was a survey conducted by a advertisement marketing majors, with 200 housewives as respondents. The purpose of the survey is to understand their thoughts about the advertisement's objectivity. A majority of respondents replied that they are inclined to be partial when they introduce their products. Housewives usually realized that is was not true after long time's passed. This survery shows that we have a significant chances to be exposed unhealthy food like great things. Misconcept of it make us consume bad food. To sum up, having power of influence and being partial when they give information in consideration, advertisement sufficiently bring about unhealthy habits. I strongly agree with this statement. |