Ingredients

Let's talk food.

I really should write more on this topic, but I tend to avoid it.  However, when media tells us something not only wrong but flat-out dangerous, I must act...

This is an actual commercial for milk, trying to lure you away from almond milk.  Boy, did they pick the wrong fight.

Their argument, boiled down, is "if you can't spell it, it's bad for you."  There are a ton of things, however, that we can't spell that are in milk!  Some of them include:

• riboflavin
• pantothenic acid
• pyridoxine
• cobalamin
• ergocalciferol and cholecalciferol, both of which are added to milk by producers
• ß-lactoglobulin
• α-lactalbumin

And so on... Taking the milk industry's argument, we shouldn't be drinking milk either, just based on this information.

But they specifically pick on lecithin...

lecithin...

which is good for you.  Here's a snippet of WebMD's description of it:

Lecithin is a fat that is essential in the cells of the body. It can be found in many foods, including soybeans and egg yolks. Lecithin is taken as a medicine and is also used in the manufacturing of medicines.

Lecithin is used for treating memory disorders such as dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. It is also used for treating gallbladder disease, liver disease, certain types of depression, high cholesterol, anxiety, and a skin disease called eczema.

This is why we can't have nice things - because we know better, but we allow advertisers to tell us not only misleading but dangerously inaccurate information, confusing huge sections of the population into believing that healthy things are bad and unhealthy things are good.  It's how we came to believe that sugar-heavy fat-free foods were good, and fatty foods like nuts and olive oil were bad.