# Idea: Junk food ads should be banned from using skinny people **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 2, 2014, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-junk-food-ads-should-be-banned-from-using-skinny-people/706099 "2014-12-02T03:38:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-junk-food-ads-should-be-banned-from-using-skinny-people/706099/41 "2016-03-24T18:46:28Z")
And there are no speech implications here. Nope, none. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-junk-food-ads-should-be-banned-from-using-skinny-people/706099/42 "2016-03-24T18:46:56Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > That ad should be banned not because it has zero fat people but because it’s as cheesy as a pound of Camembert left in your car trunk all summer. It’s so precious and cloying–so overdone–that you need to wash your eyeballs after seeing it. That ad should have been banned because I never once found a coke with my name on it. > [@cochrane](#): > > When I see an ad for junk food, I’m not paying attention to the actors in the commercial. I’m paying attention to the product. [Even this one?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dis3UVU8n7E) ---
**Author:** ![Daylate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@Daylate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylate)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-junk-food-ads-should-be-banned-from-using-skinny-people/706099/43 "2016-03-27T01:01:06Z")
Another type of advertisement that frost my gourd is put out by the multitudinous Indian casinos we have around here. They are always showing beautiful people jumping and clapping and smiling and laughing just after winning something, usually big. They never show anybody just after they’ve lost their whole social security or pension check. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-junk-food-ads-should-be-banned-from-using-skinny-people/706099/44 "2016-03-30T01:02:41Z")
[quote=“Joey\_P, post:6, topic:706099”] I’m pretty skinny and I eat enough junk food for about 3 people. I’m one of those people that can open up a thing of cookies and be done with them by the end of the night. I probably eat more crap food than good food. I get comments like “I can’t believe your teeth haven’t rotted out of your head”\* or “it’s gonna catch up with you someday” or “you must have the metabolism of a chipmunk”. Most of the side of the family that I took after is pretty lean though, I think I’m just lucky. I was skin and bones through high school and have filled out a bit as I got into my late 20’s and 30’s. I was 120 in high school and at 34 I think I’m 140. I’ve always been one of those people that can’t put on weight if I try, I can also eat really really ‘good for you food’ and not lose weight. /QUOTE] That could change, because I think you’re me 22 years ago. At 29 my weight fluctuated from 125 to 130. I wore pants with a 29 inch waist. At 34 my weight started creeping up. At just short of 56 I eat far less junk food than I did in my 20s, but I weigh about 60 pounds more. ---
**Author:** ![PoppaSan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/poppasan/32/189_2.png) [@PoppaSan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoppaSan)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-junk-food-ads-should-be-banned-from-using-skinny-people/706099/45 "2016-04-03T03:30:54Z")
> [@colbster](#): > > The fact is, fat people who drink soda will see the coke ad and think they can look like those skinny people while drinking coke. It’s deceptive and I think it should be illegal. So in addition to being overweight, fat people are dumb? Thinking that drinking a sugar laden product will make them thin? Being a few dozen pounds overweight myself, I know what causes it and it ain’t the one or two cans of soda a month I consume. And I know that drinking more Cokes won’t help. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idea-junk-food-ads-should-be-banned-from-using-skinny-people/706099.md?page=2)