"N.R.G. Pick-Ups are PURE DEXTROSE" -- junk food health claims through the years

[Since marketing is such a big part of why we eat what we eat, I thought I'd post some old ads over the next few weeks.]

Originally posted in West Coast Stat Views.

I previously posted some heath advice from a 1950 comic book which Joseph pointed out was actually pretty good. By comparison, the nutritional information that appeared in this issue of the very early (1937) comic Star Ranger is considerably more questionable. Part of that might be attributable to being more than a decade older, but I suspect the more significant difference is that the later comic was presenting the advice as something of a PSA while I suspect the Curtiss Candy Co might have had another agenda.