Health and Image

I don't have cable at my apartment so I never watch tv when I'm home but I catch up when I'm traveling. I can't get over how every single commercial has something to do with image or health. Commercial after commercial flashed on the screen advertising a facial cream to make you look ten years younger, a kitchen counter-cleaner that kills ALL germs, a car that distinguishes you from everyone else, or a diet pill to make you skinny. Even the vaccum cleaner ads are wrapped around killing carpet-mites that can "harm your children". I know these commercials are nothing new but it seems to have intensified recently. Are we really this obsessed with image and health? It's not that we shouldn't care about health and the way we look but no need to take it to the extreme. I hope we're not all buying.