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Exclusive: Nestle to cut sugar and salt in breakfast cereals
Yahoo! News ^ | October 15, 2012 | Emma Thomasson (Reuters)

Posted on 10/15/2012 11:59:29 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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To: MichaelCorleone; Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I guess the starving kids in NORK can eat smaller portions of low-cal bark and grass?


21 posted on 10/15/2012 12:43:30 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (The 0bummer Penguin: I played this country like a harp from hell.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
98% of the cereals on the market are really crappy for your health to begin with..not one of the best foods for your body.

The ones that say "healthy..." are the worst ones..

22 posted on 10/15/2012 12:44:29 PM PDT by trailhkr1
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Their chocolate milk mix has a label on the side boasting about how it now has less sugar per serving. But, if you compare the small print between the old and new packages, the biggest change they made is in how much powder you’re supposed to use.

If you cut the serving size in half, suddenly it has half the calories. It’s magic!


23 posted on 10/15/2012 12:46:10 PM PDT by Ellendra (http://www.ustrendy.com/ellendra-nauriel/portfolio/18423/concealed-couture/)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

Boxes stay at 18oz, content drops to 14.5oz, and prices rise 40% due to 25% ethanol content in gas, in 2015. That’ll go over well, like a fart in church.


24 posted on 10/15/2012 12:46:51 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (The 0bummer Penguin: I played this country like a harp from hell.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
“You can say without any shadow of a doubt,” as I was told then by Drummond Rennie, an editor for The Journal of the American Medical Association, that the authorities pushing the eat-less-salt message had “made a commitment to salt education that goes way beyond the scientific facts.”

NY Times Op-Ed 6/2012

From what I've been able to learn on the subject, there are far more verifiable health and medical problems associated with consuming too little salt than for consuming too much salt.

It's another "consensus" thing that's thoughtlessly repeated like Global WarmingTM and butter on burns.

25 posted on 10/15/2012 12:51:36 PM PDT by TChris ("Hello", the politician lied.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I'd rather put my own sugar on my cereal anyway, so I don't see it as such a big deal. And if I want it saltier, I can always pour salt on it too.
26 posted on 10/15/2012 12:51:49 PM PDT by mtg
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Terribly overpriced convenience fodder. The generic version is usually identical at as little as a quarter of the price.

Even more ironic is that a lot of milk today is reconstituted from dehydrated, with fat added for flavor and blue dye for whiteness. Blecch.


27 posted on 10/15/2012 12:59:06 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (DIY Bumper Sticker: "THREE TIMES,/ DEMOCRATS/ REJECTED GOD")
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To: circlecity
there is absolutely no better source of quick enery than oatmeal.

I put salt, sugar, butter and sometimes heavy cream on my oatmeal.

Absent the availability of some or all of those things, I have been known to put ketchup or even Worcesterchire sauce.

28 posted on 10/15/2012 1:05:01 PM PDT by elkfersupper ( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: Buckeye McFrog; Tolerance Sucks Rocks
That was my take, too.

Why don't they just chop up some styrofoam cups and box them as Cheerios? Who'd know?

29 posted on 10/15/2012 1:06:50 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: mtg
I'd rather put my own sugar on my cereal anyway, so I don't see it as such a big deal.


30 posted on 10/15/2012 1:07:16 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: Buckeye McFrog
A package of Double Stuffed Oreos jumped into my cart about half an hour ago. They taste dreadful. Maybe I haven't had them in so long that I am not remembering what they should taste like.

The real problem is the bromide in the wheat flour.

31 posted on 10/15/2012 1:08:45 PM PDT by Battle Axe (Repent, for the coming of the Lord is nigh.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I used to never salt my food. I do now.


32 posted on 10/15/2012 1:09:00 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: ObozoMustGo2012
It's a damn shame what they've done to breakfast cereal over the past several years. Low salt, low sugar sucks. I remember when King Vitaman went "low sugar". Used to be my favorite.

If I wanted "healthy" I'd get a box of the Uncle Sam constipation cereal.

33 posted on 10/15/2012 1:11:46 PM PDT by boop (Sorry, folks. Park's closed. The moose out front shoulda told ya.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Eliminate salt for the sake of the few with high blood pressure at the cost of the healthy.

Eliminate sugar for the sake of the few with diabetes at the cost of the healthy.

Eliminate peanuts for the sake of the peanut allergic at the cost of the healthy.

Eliminate dairy for the sake of the dairy allergic at the cost of the healthy.

Eliminate wheat for the sake of the gluten allergic at the cost of the healthy.

Eliminate soy for the sake of the lecithin allergic at the cost of the healthy.

blah blah blah.

I’m ready for the unhealthy to just die so I can eat regular food again.


34 posted on 10/15/2012 1:24:04 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: Ken H
What, so all this processed crap is what we`re SUPPOSED to be eating? If people want to eat garbage then they can buy and eat their garbage, if some want to eat something closer to REAL food, the way it was intended, then let them eat it. Whats wrong with the consumer, thru the free market deciding? Or put another way, I suppose Moochel`s arm twisting is BAD but from agribusiness conglomerates and people like you its GOOD.
35 posted on 10/15/2012 1:32:30 PM PDT by nomad
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To: Born to Conserve

How about giving people a choice, if you don`t want to eat something then don`t buy it or eat it, or is someone putting a gun to your head and forcing you?


36 posted on 10/15/2012 1:35:31 PM PDT by nomad
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I don’t have a problem with that. since it appears the companies have made the decision on their own. However, if due to nanny government mandates — not good. If/when they notice a drop in sales... oh, well.


37 posted on 10/15/2012 1:37:43 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The move comes as food and beverage companies seek to preempt tougher regulation due to the global obesity epidemic by offering healthier products or smaller portions.

I guess when the kids come around for donations to UNICEF, I don't have to give $$ if we have a WORLDWIDE OBESITY PROBLEM.

New from CPW: 'Nothing - No sugar, No Taste, but loaded with vitamins and minerals. Free inside --coupon for a FREE bag of Sugar!!'

38 posted on 10/15/2012 1:37:43 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (Yes, Obama, I had help with my business. MY CUSTOMERS!)
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To: boop

That Uncle Sam stuff isn’t bad once you make rice krispy treats out of it. Heck, most healthy cereals are vastly improved by the addition of melted marshmallows.


39 posted on 10/15/2012 1:40:12 PM PDT by Eepsy
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To: nomad
What, so all this processed crap is what we`re SUPPOSED to be eating? If people want to eat garbage then they can buy and eat their garbage, if some want to eat something closer to REAL food, the way it was intended, then let them eat it. Whats wrong with the consumer, thru the free market deciding?

Not a thing. That's not what's happening here, now is it. From the article:

The move comes as food and beverage companies seek to preempt tougher regulation due to the global obesity epidemic by offering healthier products or smaller portions.

Or put another way, I suppose Moochel`s arm twisting is BAD but from agribusiness conglomerates and people like you its GOOD.

It is GOOD when the pressure comes from consumers like me. It is BAD when done to kow-tow to government social engineering.

But feel free to go right on kissing Michelle's fat ass.

40 posted on 10/15/2012 1:46:45 PM PDT by Ken H
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