Yoplait Commercial pulled

Because it could encourage eating disorders. Or suggest that such behavior is normal.

See the story here: Does This Commercial Encourage Eating Disorders (Video)

Is the message that this yogurt tastes as good as cheesecake? That you should make healthy food choices at work? Or that, even if you're thin,  you're still not thin enough?

For  people coping with anorexia and bulimia, a commercial showing a thin person anxiously doing mental gymnastics in order to justify eating dessert—and then denying herself the treat because she wants to be even thinner—could reinforce the idea that such deliberations are healthy and normal, says Jenni Schaefer, an author and public speaker who has struggled with both anorexia and bulimia.

WOW....Everytime I saw this commercial I never thought about eatting disorders but my first thought was about making better choices and not about the Cheesecake flavored yogurt that they were advertising, so I can understand how someone with an eating disorder would see it.

My DD had an eating disorder in high school so I'm going to ask her if she saw it and ask her opinion.

 See, now I've seen that commercial and to me the gal wanting the cheesecake looks heavier then the yogurt gal. Now that ticked me off because to me it shows that overweight folks couldn't make a healthy choice if it killed em. I don't see anything that could be construed as encouraging eating disorders. 

I thought the girl doing mental gymnastics was a little plump when I first saw the commericial and that the girl eating the yogurt was much smaller..so I don't know get the whole anorexia thing..now if the super skinny girl in the commercial was doing all of that then I might feel that way but I don't know I think sometimes we just think about things too much..

I think the public just needs to get over things. It's like I've ALWAYS been told ya can't please all the people some of the time, or some of the people all the time.
I wonder when they're going to pull the M&M commercial? Lol
I know it's just my dirty mind at work! Lol

Pam

As someone who has battled with anorexia and bulimia i must say i def see why they pulled it...they need to start pulling alot more stuff of tv too!! i limit so much tv in my home cuz it can be too influencing on kids today...ive got a 7 year old neice and i have heard of other children too that are already obsessed with their weight and looks...

I never noticed how much the two women weighed. They both look normal to me. But I hate that commercial.


I hate how that first woman talks to herself and obsesses over food. Her running commentary as she tries not to eat cheesecake because it's "bad" frustrates me to no end. I often end up yelling at the screen -- just have the effing cheesecake already!

I believe it's better to have a small piece of an indulgent food once in a while rather than training yourself to settle for less tasty alternatives, many of which aren't that much better nutritionally than your real choice, because it's more important to be a certain weight on the scale than to eat food that gives you pleasure. Sure, the lady who had the yogurt acts like it's as fun to eat as the cheesecake but I've had both and she isn't fooling me.

 I agree with mac Madame 

 chitosan  plus one  tiny slice of real cheesecake in the morning ( then a  run) .. isnt gonna do anything to the waistline ... 


the alernative is  six cheesacke  flavored yogurts  which is ...CHEESY    abd still feels like a  rip-off 

the BEST alternative for me though is t TASTE the first and  try to duplicate it using fat free dairy   ingredients and splenda and  munch away  guilt - free  

ANYTHING  and I mean ANYTHING  can be made fat free and  sugar free  in my experience ...  and awesomely deliciously