{"id":3042,"date":"2009-12-16T05:48:49","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T03:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=3042"},"modified":"2009-12-16T05:48:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T03:48:49","slug":"offensive-or-effective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/offensive-or-effective\/","title":{"rendered":"Offensive or Effective?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They say a picture is worth a thousand words.\u00a0This probably\u00a0goes double for\u00a0graphic, gross-out pics, which is why the New York City Dept. of\u00a0Health and Mental Hygiene\u00a0decided to use them to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/doh\/html\/pr2009\/pr057-09.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dissuade New Yorkers from &#8220;Pouring on the Pounds.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>New Campaign Asks New Yorkers if They\u2019re \u201cPouring On the Pounds\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Health Department encourages consumers to choose beverages with less sugar<\/p>\n<p><strong>August 31, 2009<\/strong> \u2013 It\u2019s hard to overeat without noticing it. By contrast, soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages can sneak up on you, adding hundreds of calories to your diet each day without ever filling you up. In a new effort to highlight the health impact of sweetened drinks, the Health Department is confronting New Yorkers with a bold question: Are you pouring on the pounds? The agency\u2019s new public-awareness campaign, which includes posters in the subway system and a multilingual Health Bulletin, goes live today and will run for three months.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign\u2019s signature image \u2013 in which a bottle of soda, \u201csports\u201d drink or sweetened iced tea turns to a blob of fat as it reaches the glass \u2013 is s a stark reminder of how these products can lead to obesity and related health problems. The ads urge New Yorkers to cut back on sugary beverages and quench their thirst with water, seltzer or low-fat milk instead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The ad is below the fold.\u00a0 Warning: it\u00a0isn&#8217;t&#8230; very&#8230; appetizing.\u00a0 In fact, it&#8217;s pretty gross.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">[youtube:http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-F4t8zL6F0c]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Actors have it rough sometimes!\u00a0 Ewwwwww&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">At any rate, I&#8217;ll be curious to see what effect &#8211; if any &#8211; this has on soda consumption in NYC.\u00a0 Judging from some comments I&#8217;ve seen online, it&#8217;s certainly provoking strong (mostly negative) reactions, but time will tell&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say a picture is worth a thousand words.\u00a0This probably\u00a0goes double for\u00a0graphic, gross-out pics, which is why the New York City Dept. of\u00a0Health and Mental Hygiene\u00a0decided to use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,24,28],"tags":[1176,1863,1236,1305,1501,1556],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}