Posted on 08/20/2008 5:13:26 PM PDT by Marie2
You better eat your . . . Frosted Flakes?
Olympic legend Michael Phelps will appear on boxes of the Kellogg's brand sugar cereal, drawing sharp criticism from health experts worried about the message he'll be sending to children across America.
"I would not consider Frosted Flakes the food of an Olympian," said nutritionist Rebecca Solomon of Mount Sinai Medical Center.
"I would rather see him promoting Fiber One. I would rather see him promoting oatmeal. I would even rather see him promoting Cheerios."
The announcement yesterday that Phelps, 23, winner of a record eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics, would grace Frosted Flakes and Corn Flakes boxes instead of the traditional athlete's choice of Wheaties left many perplexed.
Frosted Flakes has three times the amount of sugar as Wheaties and 1/3rd the fiber.
This doesn't matter much to a virtuoso swimmer who consumes 12,000 calories a day.
Still, in a country where childhood obesity is an alarming issue, Phelps' iconic image sharing space with Tony the Tiger sends the wrong message, experts say.
"For a guy like Michael Phelps who isn't worried about obesity because he's burning thousands of calories as an athlete...eating Corn Flakes and Frosted Flakes every so often is not an issue," Solomon said.
The Phelps-emblazoned cereal boxes hit supermarket shelves in mid-September.
Well, Rebecca, sweetheart, since all you've won lately is the big (uninvited) mouth award, your opinion means squat.
But thank you for sharing.
Now, just run along...
I’m delighted. Had Frosted Flakes late last night for the first time in many months. Had no idea at the time they were Phelps endorsed. I may up the frequency.
She can endorse carrots!
People need to let this guy endorse whatever he wants to & mind their own d@mn bidness.
And btw Rebecca, Frosted Flakes really are Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat!!!!
Preach it!
“Yeah, but we were all outside playing burning off all those Frosted Flakes and Sugar Smacks back then. Now they go from the kitchen table to the couch ~ if they’re not already eating on the couch to save energy!”
Exactly! I can’t ever remember being home in the summer except for sleeping. We’d ride our bikes everywhere, build treehouses and forts, play a pickup game of baseball in sandlots or wherever we could find a place. Those were the days.
I remember eating Quisp when I was young, but I cannot remember to save my life what it looked like! I do remember I loved it.
It's not bad if you put about a dozen spoonfuls of su.....
oh........
Yay Cap'n Crunch!
When my sister and I were teenagers in Maine we got grounded for taking a bike ride on a back road full of twists and turns and hills and trees that we wanted to explore. We ended up a couple of towns over too exhausted to make it back home and had to call ask for a ride home! lolol
I most definetly agree with the Cap'n.
But if Cap'n wins by a landslide, how can Lucky Charms be a close second?
In the old days, kids ate Frosted Flakes and played outside all day, didn’t sit all day with electronic toys.
I thought he probably chose Frosted Flakes because they were his favorite cereal and he hated Wheaties! More power to him for making his own choice—it’s his Gold Medal, not Rebecca’s!
Could these be the same 'health experts' that reccommend eating tons of pasta, potatoes, and bread, and embibing massive amounts of high-glycemic fruits and juices?
Hypocrites!
Frosted Flakes are no worse than any other carbs.
We all do. What exactly is wrong with that?
Its the model for commerce. Enough socialism please!
Good for Michael Phelps.
As always, I wonder how much this obsession with “healthy” food contributes to obesity. My mother got into that kind of stuff in the early 70s... wouldn’t let us have candy, white bread, sweets of any kind, or even iceburg lettuce. Instead of chocolate, we got carob... blecch. That so-called “health food” tastes, for the most part, horrible.
Of course, whenever I could, I’d eat sweets, and once I left home, I ate them like crazy. My weight has been an ongoing issue; the only way I have some control is by reminding myself that I don’t have to deprive myself of anything. With a whole generation of kids raised deprived of what kids love (sweets), it’s no surprise to me that many of them turned out overweight, and that they don’t know how to raise their own kids to understand how to eat a balanced diet, with sweets in moderation.
They were GRRRREAT.
Is that the breakfast I saw listed on a menu in a diner in Massachusetts as “Truck Driver’s Heart Attack on a Plate” = served by a cardiologist?
I don’t get why “Life” cereal didn’t come up with a remake of the old “Mikey” commercials with a grown up Mikey.
“He likes it! Hey, Mikey!”
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