Fitness Confidential With Vinnie Tortorich

Episode 2059 - On this Monday show, Anna Vocino and Vinnie Tortorich talk cigarettes and TV ads, cholesterol misinformation, drug lies, crazy side effects, and more. https://vinnietortorich.com/2022/03/tv-ads-drug-lies-episode-2059 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods TV ADS Sometimes Vinnie's Hulu movies have ads. This is really the only time he gets to see TV ads. Vinnie thinks of cigarette ads in the 20th century. Doctors were smoking. Nowadays, they can't actually drink in beer ads and everything comes with a warning. But it's not all good news. They would say in these ads that smoking 'makes the air softer.' They'd even show women with black eyes in the ads. But now, we see lots of ads for drugs that people do not need. CHOLESTEROL LIES Now ads largely focus on selling drugs. Vinnie plays a lipitor ad. Companies need folks to stay sick to sell more drugs. Of course, talk to your doctor. But take these ads with a grain of salt -- at best. Vinnie thinks that many of th