First, evidence of this Milk ad's propaganda can be seen in its use of the bandwagon technique. Largely centered in the middle of the page is the rock star singer Cheryl Crow, with a milk mustache standing holding a guitar in one hand and an hour glass shaped glass of milk. According to Ann McClintock, this technique is called bandwagon. Ann McClintock writes: âEveryoneâs doing it. Why donât youâ(667). This image suggests that Cheryl Crow is an everyday person and drinks milk, an everyday product that most of us already use. The hour glass shaped milk glass plays a role in the bandwagon technique because nowdays most everyone is health conscious.
1 For the general adult population, a daily dose of the smallest available tablet of B12 (usually 100 mcg) should be sufficient. 2  You require just a few micrograms a day. 3  Your body will absorb only a very small part of that pill. You require just a few micrograms a day. 2  Your body will absorb only a very small part of that pill. 3  The reason for this low absorption is that there is only enough intrinsic factor (the bodyâs chemical that shuttles B12 into your gut cells) excreted per meal to absorb 2-4 micrograms of B12.
Plus, as you only need about 2mg of B1 (aka thiamine) a day to live (and that's an overestimate), it's likely that you will just pee out or otherwise eliminate any excess vitamin you take in (the dirty secret of supplements: most of what you swallow comes right out the other end of you).