Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Are we being manipulated?

Lately I had an opportunity to talk with a few people about our television, about what we can see there and why is that all so pathetic.

My brother is a medicine student, and he gets very passionate about everything related to health and its false perception. So we were talking about this winter time, that TV gives us definitely too many commercials of medicines. it won't be exagarated to say that it's about 70%, I am sure. We're almost literally bombed by those commercials, which, in most cases, are terribly poor. It's understandable that in the time of a flu and other infections we get to see more commercials, but if it was just that, I wouldn't mind (although I suffer a lot when I see poorly made tv commercial, as well as I really enjoy the good ones).

The problem is that pharmaceutical companies are trying to tell us more and more stupid things, and it becomes disturbing. It looks like we can't live without all kind of vitamins, suplements, we can't lose weight without medicines, and surely fruits and vegetables won't help. I find it truly disturbing, because we spend money on things we actually don't need and may be harmful if we looks further. I think the most exposed to this are elder people.

It's JUST business. We don't need a half of what we have in our houses to "protect our health". They try to tell us that we should buy their product to PROTECT us, and they do it very well. Because who would skimp for health?