article for the children's section of a newspaper cautioning not to trust advertisement blindly
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Beware of the Traps of Advertisements
Everything that glitters is not gold. This maxim aptly describes the insidious influence of advertisements. They are baits to trap children’s attention.
Most of the companies, manufactures make unscientific and undue claims about their products. For examples all the companies that make biscuits, cold drinks, potato chips, candies, etc. make appealing advertisements and play them again and again on different channels luring and misguiding children and viewers into buying them are predominantly unscientific and untrue.
The truth is there is no substitute for natural balanced diet such as green vegetables, fruits, nuts, milk, cereals, pulses, etc.; the nutritional values that these foods contain can never be replaced by the advertised products, still there is never an advertisement on them, even by the Government. The bitter truth is the companies of all products spend a whopping amount of money on advertisements. Since these companies enjoy enough power owing to their influence, they often display misleading and false claims about their products.
Owing to the misleading advertisements, the food habits of children have changed considerably and their health has been affected adversely. The Government must make health regulatory policies to keep people safe from the influence of the advertisements. People must also adopt saner and more cautious attitude towards advertisement.