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Early 1970s commerical on the values of nutrition?

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MarcRoss

Hello,

Is there a video-clip of an early 1970s commercial featuring animated fruits, and soda bottles, both with legs? The running animated fruits conveyed upbeat healthy choices. The animated soda bottles conveyed unhealthy, sluggish running choices? These seem like public service ADs popular at the time!

Thank-you
 
I don't remember such an ad but I do wonder if it has to do with a teenage girl I can remember reading about back in 5th grade, I don't recall her name ( hey we are talking the late 70s here and our text books were from the early 70s ) but she did appear before congress about the lack of nutrition in many of the products that were out at the time and I am pretty sure some PSAs were done too. She also had a problem with Hershey Foods when they renamed their amusement park Hersheypark in 1972. She felt that was just a ploy to get kids and adults to consume Hershey's chocolate. In a way she was right but the park was renamed Hersheypark anyway.

One thing I learned about PSAs....don't knock what is popular even if they are considered to be unhealthy. We see that right now with cigarettes. Lots of PSAs about the dangers of cigarette smoking BUT one does NOT usually see PSAs say the same thing about those e-smokes, cigars and more recently marijuana even though many are into such stuff. I live in a state that allows legal pot and I must say when that happened those "just say no" anti-pot ads became rare,
 
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