Wouldn't the conflict of interest be that this person was paid by lobbyists for the article he wrote? I mean, I wonder what his defs. of conflicts of interest are? Sounds like they don't match mine.
Great eye. It should be part of public education to teach kids to question both whether or not something is true, and, "who benefits from me believing this is true"?
A cup of oats has everything from fiber to polyphenols to 11g protein to a respectable amount of minerals (zinc, manganese, copper, magnesium, selenium).
A cup of Frosted Flakes has almost no fiber and really nothing except whatever they fortified it with.
My comment refers to "oats" in the quotation, something that can obviously replace sugary boxed cereals.
But, on your topic, modern muesli is more like an unroasted granola mix these days. Mostly grains like oats and nuts. The original recipe even prescribes the pit and core of an apple.
Every time I go to the grocery store and see all of the sugary breakfast cereal laid out, it reminds me of a candy aisle. I keep expecting a lot of it to actually become illegal and disappear because of the very excessive amount of sugar in most of them and the fact that they are marketed to kids as a daily staple.
Don't get me wrong, I love Corn-Pops and stuff, but I think it should be considered a dessert item for a weekend or something rather than something you feed to your kids every day.
There are plenty of cereals that are sweetened but are not going completely overboard like the old-fashioned ones, and I think that should be okay for breakfast.
There should be a cut-off on the proportional amount of sugar versus other ingredients.
I don’t think it will dramatically affect my lifespan. My doctor says I have the body of a 35 year old and my family almost always lives well into their 100s.
When I was young, in the late 90s, supermarkets here in the UK had an entire aisle just with breakfast cereals. Now my local supermarket has about six feet of them and that's it. Crazy how an entire food sector has just entirely collapsed. Literally the only people I see eating cereal now are doing it ironically (Momofuku etc.)
Depends on the store. Trader Joe's has 6 different boxes, when they have them at all.
Local chain has an entire aisle, often with 3 or 4 sizes of the popular ones. 100's of choices. Dozens of granolas. Fruity rings from every manufacturer you've heard of and several you haven't.
Interesting. Here in the US, there is still more than an entire side of an aisle full of breakfast cereal (brand name cereal on one side and generic cereal on the other side). The aisle is probably 40 feet long.
It's still an entire aisle at my supermarket (granted, a big one) in the UK. I honestly wasn't aware that it had gone out of fashion. What are the cool kids eating instead now, avocado toast?
My seven-year-old's friends seem to eat porridge, toast, fruit, that kind of thing. Genuinely can't remember the last time I saw a child eat a bowl of cereal, and that's not some kind of weird principle of mine they eat plenty of other junk. Now I think about it I think it's also a changing attitude to milk, not just cereal. People don't seem to just consume milk like we did as children.
“Breakfast cereal” encompasses Captain Crunch and Lucky Charms on one end of the spectrum, and Bran Flakes or oatmeal on the other, so expecting a consistent effect is a fool’s errand.
There was a time when nature was balancing human dietary habits and that is the base foundation.
Mass production, marketing departments and salespeople replaced food intakes based on their business results and the messages implanted into consumers heads are generating more sales.
Consumers don’t have the resources to make these kind of analysis and even so Kellogg's or Nestle would dim out their opposing communication.
Meet Cereal Killer... as in Froot Loops. But he does know things.
I wonder how much of these benefits are conferred by consumption of the cereal, and how much are due to the kind of person who eats breakfast cereal, especially as an adult, just preferring a low fat, high fiber diet.
> In addition to providing an important source of vitamins and minerals, breakfast cereals are also potentially important sources of antioxidants and phytoestrogens
Always make sure to get enough estrogen in your breakfast.
Searching for bad effects of phytoestrogen online seems to bring up inconclusive results.
But my first search regarding milk introduced it as an exogenous source of pure estrogen which is interesting in the context of breakfast cereals: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19496976/
cereals are out of fashion right now due to Bro Science on the internet, but most people of eurasian descent are literally evolved to eat cereal grain...yeah, in the last 5k year, very roughly, it was the basis of our diet
Processed sugary junk food that passes for "breakfast cereal" 80-90% of the time bears little to no resemblance to anything humans anywhere in the planet evolved to habitually consume.
That is curiously true of everything we eat. Even carrots and potatoes. Today's hybrids don't resemble anything we evolved to eat, by a wide margin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc4zFD3vWHU
Calling horticultural changes in crop plants comparable to clumps of ground grain mass manufactured and loaded with sugar is a bit absurd.
When humans begin to cultivate a population of wild plants, there's a new selective pressure on those plants to better serve human beings. As a result, these horticultural practices in almost all cases created more nutritious food for human beings. Modern issues such pressure to look good on a shelf rather than keep human beings healthy enough to till fields are a blip on the radar, an issue stretching back less than 100 years. All in all the food we bred more closely matches what our evolutionary path lead our bodies to demand nutritionally, because if it didn't the plant's wouldn't have been able to outcompete their wild counterparts, people would stop growing them.
The watermelon specifically in the video was an underripe watermelon.
The watermelon was cut to eat on a feast table. All indications are, it was the best they had.
Fantasies about 'eating paleo' and such are just that, fantasies. To eat like we did thousands of years ago, you'd be eating plants that were barely digestible with toxins and organic compounds designed to injure us. Because until we tamed them, the plant had no pressure (as you say!) to be nutritional.
No, boxed candy cereal is not good for you. But eat oatmeal then (which is a cereal). Which is digestible, because we modified it heavily.
> Regular consumption of breakfast cereals is associated with diets that are lower in fat
why is this necessarily a good thing?
> Regular consumption of breakfast cereals is associated with diets that are higher in vitamins and minerals for adults, adolescents, and children
is the subset of vitamins and minerals and the corresponding RDAs that they look at responsible for driving meaningful outcomes or do they just pick whatever's convenient?
> Regular consumption of breakfast cereals is associated with a greater likelihood of meeting recommended nutrient intakes
again, recommended nutrient intakes is very convenient considering they're derived from how nourished a population is, i.e: as a nourishment goes down so do the recommended levels.
> Consumption of breakfast cereals is associated with higher daily milk intake
Only thing so far that might actually be causal to health. Probably not though because the frankenmilk we consume today is not the raw milk we were consuming a century ago.
> Consumption of presweetened breakfast cereals does not increase the total daily energy intake in children’s diets
calories in/ calories out is not as useful as made out to be, there's quite little wrong with consuming a lot of calories if those calories are well utilised
> Consumption of breakfast cereals does not increase the total daily sodium intake
Sodium is an essential electrolyte/signaling ion. Too much is bad in the presence of insulin insensitivity. Too little is really bad if the individual is metabolcially sound for the most part.
> Consumption of presweetened breakfast cereals does not increase total daily sugar intake of children and adolescents
second one so far that might actually be a really good proxy
tl;dr: no idea how many of these are useful proxies for things that actually matter
