Killer cereals?

Daily Telegraph ^ | 24/02/2002 | Staff

[ijcr]

Bluntly put, the medical establishment has to stomach some serious crow eating.

[Huck]

Bluntly put, the medical establishment has to stomach some serious crow eating.

Parents are responsible for what their children eat. If their kids are so unhealthy they are getting diabetes, there is a breakdown in parenting occurring. Maybe they had bad advice from the food pyramid, but I can't imagine that is the main cause. Parents probably just don't have the discipline to monitor what their kids eat, to insist that they eat healthy, and to punish them if they disobey.

[absinthe]

Type II diabetes, normally seen only in adults and in children from ethnic minorities, has been diagnosed in four obese white teenagers whose bodies can no longer cope with carbohydrates.

Four cases make an epidemic?

[stanz]

Killer cereals?

Or serial killers?

[VOA]

Maybe they had bad advice from the food pyramid, but I can't imagine that is the main cause.

The guvmint is at least contributory. I've been hearing that the food pyramid was
constructed by some do-gooder legislators and their brainiac aides, not based
on empirical science or research.

My first awakening to this was the book "Protein Power". One of the doctors who
wrote that said that the food pyramid was basically a wish that Americans would eat the
same diet fed to cows and pigs to fatten them up for market.

[aardvark1]

Parents are also responsible for the activity level of their children. Besides eating patterns it would be nice to know how many hours in front of the TV/Nintendo/Computer were logged by these cherubs.

[Kaslin]

Genetic cause for diabetes

LACK OF VITAMIN D MAY CAUSE JUVENILE DIABETES

[P7M13]

ping

[headsonpikes]

They don't even mention the 'orange' food group(Cheezies, Doritos, etc.), probably the foundation of many American diets.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

This is a bunch of horse feces to scare the sheeple so the trial lawyers can go after another industry.

[lds23]

Rice Krispies sprinkled on Rocky Road Ice Cream. It's killer!

[Huck]

Unless I am mistaken, the links you provided refer to juvenile diabetes, which is different from "adult-type diabetes ." The posted article refers to children getting adult-type diabetes, which appears to be caused by poor diet and obesity.

[CharlieDarwin]

Some are already shifting their marketing emphasis toward whole-grain content. Such cereals slow the absorption rate of carbohydrates, and - again, in contrast to fat levels - have been shown to reduce heart disease rates in five major studies.

Love that old SNL joke "Headlines from the Year 2020": "Oat Bran - The Silent Killer". Love oat bran, too.

[strela]

I never trusted that Cap'n Crunch guy. Obviously a tool of the military-industrial complex, he's a mind-numbed robot in uniform, murdering women and children and cute l'il puppies in battle. And he's not even an enlisted man, so he can't use the "I was just following orders" defense at his war crimes trial.

Sheesh - sounds just like DU, doesn't it? ;)

[Huck]

I am not saying the food pyramid has nothing to do with it. I am just saying that the food pyramid doesn't say eat 6-8 servings of Froot Loops or Count Chocula. I never bought into the pyramid myself. Different things work for different people I suppose, but I prefer a diet consisting of mostly vegetables, and protein from certain sources, such as fish, soy, and the occasional succulent rib-eye steak, with carbs being the smallest group. It works for me. I don't eating a lot of fruit (more carbs.) I have a banana before I work out. That's it. Plus I take Vitamin E, Vitamin C, and a multivitamin. Anyway, enough about me. I still believe many of these parents aren't hard enough on their kids. They spoil them. When I was living with my granny, there was no way I was gonna be fat. She wouldn't let it happen. She was in charge.

[Kaslin]

I know one of the links was to Juvenile diabetes. This is the best I could do. Sorry

[Huck]

No apology necessary. I didn't mean it as a "gotcha." Just throwing some info out there.

[stanz]

DU???

Sorry..you lost me....
Actually, it's that cornflakes killer rooster I never trusted.

[valkyrieanne]

Let's sue the feds for the food pyramid (80% of calories are supposed to come from carbs, and people end up making those mostly refined, high glycemic-index carbs rather than fibrous vegetables.)

[ijcr]

Whoa there, it is the other way round.Re-read the article. It opines that low fat and fat free diets are responsible for obesity, not healthy T- Bone steaks or hamburgers.

In fact Post products are more dangerous than J.R. Reynolds.