Posted on 08/20/2008 5:13:26 PM PDT by Marie2
Bet you're a lot of fun at parties.
I used to love Frosted Flakes as a kid, but they now really taste horrible to me.
Kind of a dumb business move on Phelps’ part. Damages his credibility from the very start.
...or he knows that Frosted Flakes would be a fine food for him.
YIKES! That would certainly never be a part of MY diet!
Why do you say that? When my kids are in training they really consume a lot of calories. As part of a balanced diet, there is absolutely nothing wrong with frosted flakes.
OK, so I wouldn’t let them eat the sugar the day of or day before a serious competition, but they sure need the calories the rest of the time.
Oh yeah, their sports nutritionist agrees with me.
As I said, they may be okay for children. I used to love them as a kid.
I can’t imagine eating them now . . it is something I don’t like the taste of.
So how does it damage his credibility?
It would have been classier to endorse something like Cheerios or even Wheaties.
Phelps would have endorsed Lucky Charms if the money was high enough.
It just makes him look tacky.
Why not “Quarry” instead...”better tastin’ because it’s mined!”
It means that notwithstanding your above-it-all attitude, this thread was part of your Full Life before I was even on the scene.
Bet you're a lot of fun at parties.
One of my party secrets is not inserting myself in conversations and then disparaging them as trivial.
I’m good with a cheesesteak and some tastykakes from the super WAWA.
Good luck.
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....or, everyone could just shut the hell up about it, mind their own damned business, and be glad kids can see coverage of a genuine achiever, rather than some "artist" or other degenerate celebrity.
Oh, my... personally, I think putting Michael Phelps on a cereal box is more likely to get kids interested in swimming than it is to get them to buy a certain brand of cereal. No kidding, the Olympics years back got my siblings and I hooked on swimming, and it’s possibly had more of a positive effect on my health than anything else.
Plus, this lady would probably have a heart attack if she knew what Phelps, or even your average varsity swimmer, ate. In high school, the day before and the day of a swim meet, it was pretty much carbs, carbs, and more carbs, and then just loads and loads of food the rest of the time. Sure, if you’re the average American kid, eating like a swimmer will result in obesity, but if you swim you either need it or burn it off anyways.
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