If you watch a lot of TV, you have doubtless noticed that there are a lot of commercials for food - restaurants, soups, etc.
Have you ever noticed that these commercials trigger in you a desire to eat? Do you find yourself getting up in the middle of a TV show - after you've seen a commercial for a restaurant - showing all kinds of mouth-watering food- and gotten something to eat.
My advice to you is not only to mute your TV when commercials come on, but to walk away from them altogether. If you're a devotee of a particular show - for example NCIS or CSI, you probably know what kinds of commercials are shown during commercial breaks (they usually show the same ones) and you know how long the commercials last.
Of course, there are other commercials you should avoid - and your family.
I watch a lot of sports and for the last several weeks have been seeing a Direct TV commercial, featuring some Russian guy with electrodes on his biceps. Behind him is a muscle bound guy, also attached to electrodes. That guy does the exercising, and the biceps of the "wealthy, sneering" Russian guy get better. And of course he's waited on by two skinny, beautiful, scantily clad women. One wipes his brow, the other is languidly walking on a treadmill (which isnt' going fast enough to give her any kind of workout, and all she's doing is walking on it and pouting into the camera like a loser.)
And of course the rich Russian blows a kiss...not to the two members of his harem but to the miniature giraffe that is apparently the guy's pet.
Not the kind of commercial you want impressionable young girls to watch...although one would hope they'd look at it and see how bogus it all is.
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