{"id":38,"date":"2016-02-07T19:46:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T00:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annasilvertand.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"2021-07-06T21:26:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T02:26:58","slug":"advertising-hypes-or-truths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annasilvertand.com\/advertising-hypes-or-truths\/","title":{"rendered":"Advertising Hypes or Truths?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Consuming diet products will give me diabetes! Fried food is cancer in a meal-shape disguise! MSG (monosodium glutamate) causes Alzheimer\u2019s! Gluten rich foods are the cause of obesity! Sugar killed my relative! Food coloring and other additives in my kid’s food gave them ADHD… It is so tempting to keep reading after a headline like that. What was the thing that did this and is it a potential threat to me, or the people I love?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Everyone who starts studying science is taught to question everything they hear. For a lot of people, this is counter-intuitive. While growing up, our parents had all the answers. You asked them why leaves change colors in the fall, why the sky is blue or why we eat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Changing Leaves. \u00a9 Kenny Louie[1]<\/sup><\/a>This work is copyrighted by the mentioned creator. Further license under which this work may be used can be found at http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/.<\/span> For more information on the creator and media, please visit: https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kwl\/<\/span><\/span><\/span>