This morning my husband (a health-care provider) saw a commercial for Splenda with vitamin B-12. They advertised that since coffee has no vitamins, Splenda can help make breakfast healthier by adding vitamin B-12 to your morning cup of Joe. He was exercising on a stationary bike when he saw the commercial, and told me it was a good thing he didn't have water in his mouth at the time, or he would have spewed. I wish you could have seen him trying to describe the commercial while we ate breakfast. He laughed so hard, "Let's forget that Splenda is a carcinogenic (cancer causing), and that coffee is not healthy, let's add a leeeeetle bit of vitamin B-12, and now you have a healthier breakfast!"
We are certainly not perfect in eating healthy. There are some health gurus who would look at what my husband and I consider healthy foods and shake their heads, but Splenda with B-12 seemed insane... and insanely funny to him, and the way he described it gave me a healthy belly laugh.
"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it." ~Stephen Butler Leacock, quoted in Michael Jackman, Crown's Book of Political Quotations, 1982
ReplyDeleteSusan...great quote! And very true.
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