I just need to get this off my chest. I am a cargiver and post some on this site. I am also an RN . I have very mixed feelings about what causes dementia/ALZ etc. I have read and researched and take alot of the info with a grain of salt . I was travelling last week and saw a billboard that really rubbed me the wrong way. I can't quote it exactly but it was " Eat your veggies , or become one" . It had little veggis with faces and eyes and on the bottom it stated it was a sign from prevention of ALZ or something. How dare anyone try to scare the crap out of people with such unfounded information. I get S&T of reading what causes dementia and ALZ...everything. Im sorry I just felt like it was one of the most tastless advertisements in regard to this awful disease yet. Thanks for listening.
Sure, it isn't kind. But what were they advising us to do? Eat vegetables! That is wonderful and correct advice. If we eat more vegetables, we will all be healthier and thinner and more regular.
I didn't see the ad, but it makes me think of those HORRIBLE ads that show what happens to smokers. If those ads get people to give up smoking, I don't worry about offending those who got lung cancer and never smoked.
of how tastless it may be.
I don't want to blame someone for their disease, but it's not a lie to say that eating vegetables will make us healthier than we would otherwise be. It's less tasteless to me than making people believe that they have to buy expensive designer jeans to be happy.
Wasn't the ad a public service ad? No one is going to make much money off of it.....