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The Decline of ‘Big Soda’
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#42Just take some time next time you're in a supermarket and walk down the cereal aisle, it's just incredible. It's all sugar and carbohydrates in colorful cartoony boxes meant to appeal to children. Just a cup of cereal has many calories and people and children eat huge bowls of this stuff. So I think an anti-cereal campaign might also help. I often wonder what would happen to national obesity rates if cereal aisles in…
As weird as it is, things are improving in the U.S. I met an ad exec who ran the Joe Camel campaign. People will do what works. The free market will end up with really effective but unwanted solutions. Marketing to kids is one of those places where simple regulation makes a lot of sense.
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As weird as it is, things are improving in the U.S. I met an ad exec who ran the Joe Camel campaign. People will do what works. The free market will end up with really effective but unwanted solutions. Marketing to kids is one of those places where simple regulation makes a lot of sense.
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#44Just take some time next time you're in a supermarket and walk down the cereal aisle, it's just incredible. It's all sugar and carbohydrates in colorful cartoony boxes meant to appeal to children. Just a cup of cereal has many calories and people and children eat huge bowls of this stuff. So I think an anti-cereal campaign might also help. I often wonder what would happen to national obesity rates if cereal aisles in…
There some much healthier options in there if you know where to look, but unfortunately its not easy to identify them, and even things like granola which are colloquially thought to be healthy are often jam packed with sugar.
I saw something called "Uncle Sam Original Wheat Berry Flakes" last weekend, and it is surprisingly healthy (http://www.unclesamcereal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Unc...). Only 4 ingredients, too.
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I have a large bowl of cereal every morning. Yes, I eat those kids' sugary cereals. My BMI is below 20.
damage to the pancreas and related hormonal systems is cumulative, often not apparent until its too late. people can be pre-diabetic and not obese. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-01-26/more-than-...
Well, you may have an increase (no definitive causation) although the chances of developing pancreatic cancer if so is still very unlikely.
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65E5H420100615
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#46Just take some time next time you're in a supermarket and walk down the cereal aisle, it's just incredible. It's all sugar and carbohydrates in colorful cartoony boxes meant to appeal to children. Just a cup of cereal has many calories and people and children eat huge bowls of this stuff. So I think an anti-cereal campaign might also help. I often wonder what would happen to national obesity rates if cereal aisles in…
Even Kelloggs Corn Flakes are packed with sugar. Why?
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#47I would like to see a decline of "Big water". It astonishes me that bottled water is consistently sold for more than sugar water and not one bottler breaks from the pack and sells it for less. That can only happen with industry wide collusion to fix prices and yet no one in the government does anything about it.
Premium brand water might be $2/bottle (let's forget luxury brands that might be $4+) but you can get store brands in 24/48 packs for $2.99/$3.99 at large retailers.
Even some brands like Dasani or Deja Blue are 1/$2 at gas stations
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#48What are restaurants doing to combat the loss of their highest-margin items? Another bonus of drinking water instead of a soft drink is a cheaper bill at lunch.
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#50Just take some time next time you're in a supermarket and walk down the cereal aisle, it's just incredible. It's all sugar and carbohydrates in colorful cartoony boxes meant to appeal to children. Just a cup of cereal has many calories and people and children eat huge bowls of this stuff. So I think an anti-cereal campaign might also help. I often wonder what would happen to national obesity rates if cereal aisles in…
I'm not convinced that cereal as a product is bad. Sure things like Lucky Charms are clearly terrible for kids, but Cheerios or Honey Bunches of Oats? They are the best combination of cheap, easy, and quick that someone can get for breakfast. My biggest worry with an anti-cereal movement would be that people would just start skipping breakfast (even more than they do), leading them to consume MORE calories at lunch and dinner to make up for it.