Healthy Habits for a Fit Family by J. Ron Eaker

Author:J. Ron Eaker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HEA010000, REL012030
ISBN: 9781441214867
Publisher: Revell
Published: 2011-01-31T16:00:00+00:00

Are Your Kids Sweet on Cereal?

Now, let’s look at a few guidelines for buying cereals, the staple in many household breakfast agendas. In general, if it contains a toy, comic book, spy ring, or anything plastic, odds are the cereal can’t stand on its own merits. You wouldn’t buy a steak just because it had a free lipstick case stuck through its middle, would you? Scare yourself sometime and actually read the ingredient lists for popular cereals. The most prevalent ingredient is detailed first, and the list proceeds from there. If sugar appears in the top five, don’t buy it! You might as well sit your little tyke down and put 5 tablespoons of sugar in a bowl and let him dig in. The American Dietetic Association recommends no more than 6 grams of sugar per serving. My advice is to try to lower that even more.

A Sugar Comparison

The sugar content in a 50-gram serving of popular cereals and candies:

Sugar Crisp cereal 26.6g

Kit Kat bar 26.19g

Snickers bar 25.42g

Nesquik cereal 23.3g

Froot Loops 22.5g

Cocoa Puffs 22.2g

Trix 21.6g

Frosted Cheerios 21.6g

Lucky Charms 21.6g

Frosted Flakes 12.1g

Rice Krispies 5.35g

Source: company reports

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