Negative Health And Fitness Ads
For instance here are five recent examples of egregiously misleading health and fitness ads.
Negative health and fitness ads. After the federal trade commission charged dannon with deceptive advertising in 2010 the company agreed to stop stating that consuming activia yogurt daily relieves digestive irregularity and that the yogurt drink danactive staves off colds and flu. Some health claims rely on exaggerated facts making them wrongful and potentially misleading. Reebok s easytone shoes. The 7 dimensions of health 1 for the future 1 addiction help 1 inspirational poster 1 mental health poster 2 my top 5 2 help for the future 2 negative advertisement example 3.
This ad was spotted in san francisco in 2008 put up by some public health initiative. The first dotted line says started going for walks during lunch hour the second line says stops ordering take out and starts cooking healthy meals. The following is an ad that had given a negative message to its viewers. Negative fitness advertisement for example you have a weight loss milkshake.
In your advertisement you write that people who have obesity or overweight body are not interesting to other people to date. Below the images is an explanation of that message. This disturbing collection of body shaming gym advertisements proves the fitness community is pretty clueless when it comes to body positivity. Either that or deliberately cunning.
Since the ruling it has apologised for the error. Body shaming is the most common appear in health and fitness advertisement. In 2009 and 2010 reebok ran a series of ads for its easytone and runtone. The circuit factory in dubai placed this ad promoting exercise classes on the gym s facebook page and then quickly took it down hours later.
In the world of advertising many brands appear to be clueless about the matter.