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But it’s Organic (and other excuses) « — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:33:09 +0000

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By: Camille

Camille — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:58:37 +0000

Molly, I agree!! (Love DVR for this reason!)

By: molly

molly — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:55:23 +0000

I love that my instinctive move not to let my kid watch ads – or at least not let him watch them at home by using DVDs, etc. – has scientific research to back it up! On this subject the book The Elephant in the Living Room is a fascinating (and helpful) read. Great post.

By: Babette

Babette — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:38:26 +0000

Ah. So my obsession with food shows would be double: food show interlaced with commercials.

I am doomed.

Joking aside, this is thought provoking–I so remember telling a childless friend that I was pretty much non-limiting my kids’ PBS viewing and movie watching one difficult summer. His reply? How is that different? Proves my instincts were correct…At least if I was going to fall off the TV ban wagon, I was falling on the right side…Makes me really want to go back to severely limited TV for the one remaining teen at home…

By: Jen

Jen — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:04:34 +0000

While I agree that it’s certainly possible that there is a subconscious feeling that if a thin person is eating something, it must be pretty healthy, I think that the more salient point is that just seeing something yummy on TV (or in a magazine or whatever for that matter) makes you crave it. It doesn’t hurt that you might subconsciously rationalize that “hey, that woman is eating it and she’s still thin and healthy,” but I think it is often a more base reaction than that – you just see it and want some! Still all the more reason to avoid watching commercials. And very doable with the advent of TiVo/DVR.