The dangers of eating Fruit Loops
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kaylajane11 wrote: »I ate a bowl of sugary cereal (including Froot Loops) almost every day as a kid. I was a picky eater and that was pretty much the only thing I liked for breakfast. I was never overweight as a kid/adolescent, I didn't develop cancer, heart disease, or food allergies, and I grew up to be a healthy adult - who still eats Froot Loops.
Yup.. same here. Except we weren't picky, we just liked our sugary cereals for breakfast (and sometimes lunch too). My brother and I both turned out just fine.. never overweight, always quite athletic too.
Also, I owe all my current fabulous success to Cocoa Krispies... yummmm
Ohhh Cocoa Krispies with banana is heaven.
*adds Cocoa Krispies and more bananas to grocery list*
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Next I'm going to be told there's not actually froot in them.
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Cryptonomnomicon wrote: »I thought Toucan Sam looked a little different today...
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Neversettle78 wrote: »It's funny how the answer to these garbage foods with little to no redeeming nutritive value is always moderation. Well gee, if 70% of the country is overweight or obese obviously the moderation message isn't reaching the masses. The solution to avoiding addictive garbage isn't not to buy it. No that's far to simple. The solution then, according to MFP users, is to ingest garbage in smaller increments, that way everything will work out just fine!
You should pay closer attention to the profiles of the people who claim moderation is the key....they are usually (not always, but usually) the ones with the most success.
(btw, I practice moderation...I had pizza for breakfast today)
This. So this.0 -
Posting idiotic crap like this should be grounds for a banning from the forums. I'm pretty sure we all ate fruit loops as a kid and we're alive. This is more nanny state BS from health nuts and snake oil salesmen posing as doctors.0
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I can't be a responsible adult when it comes to sugary cereal. I can't just eat one bowl.
So I don't buy it. It doesn't have any nutrition in it, so I don't buy it for the kiddos either. I occasionally buy the single serve ones as a treat, but that is all.
While we're on the subject has anyone here tried the cereal with the chocolate inside it? I can't be an adult at all with that in the house. Yummy0 -
There are no dangers of eating Froot Loops. Take it back!0
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I'm just glad my mom loved me enough to give me Lucky Charms, Booberry, Fruity Pebbles and Cap'n Crunch (with Crunchberries) instead of the deadly Fruit Loops.0
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enterdanger wrote: »My kids eat fruit loops. They haven't died yet and aren't overweight. Sometimes they poo green from it and since they are boys they always seem to want to share a look at it.
I remember changing my daughter's diaper after she had eaten froot loops and momentarily panicked because her poop was green. Totally forgot the "color changing" effects froot loops have. :laugh:0 -
Am I safe if I buy the store brand?
If not...I'll let you know where to send your condolences for my funeral0 -
daydreams_of_pretty wrote: »daydreams_of_pretty wrote: »
Sorry not sorry? They’re so good, right? And fun! I love the colourful marshmallow bits! They just make me smile.
The trick is to get as many marshmallows as possible to "fall" into your bowl. They should take a note from Cap'n Crunch and do an "Oops all marshmallows" version. Let's just be honest about why we're eating it
lol!
My freshman year of college, I invited some friends to the dining hall because I had too many meals left for the semester. One of them goes, "Ooooooh yeah. I've been waiting my entire life to do this." and proceeds to get a bowl of Lucky Charms, pick out the non-marshmallows, and eat only the marshmallows. He got maybe two-thirds of the way through and says, "Ugh. I think I'm going to be sick. I now totally get why my parents would never let me do this." Good times!
I am retroactively dedicating the two servings of Captain Crunch w/Crunch Berries I had for breakfast to this post.
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ceoverturf wrote: »Am I safe if I buy the store brand?
If not...I'll let you know where to send your condolences for my funeral
No, store brand kills you faster! Better hurry and tie up those loose ends my friend. 0 -
I stopped reading at #3. This was painfully stupid.0
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raelynnsmama52512 wrote: »ceoverturf wrote: »Am I safe if I buy the store brand?
If not...I'll let you know where to send your condolences for my funeral
No, store brand kills you faster! Better hurry and tie up those loose ends my friend.
Sayonara MFP...it's been real.0 -
daydreams_of_pretty wrote: »daydreams_of_pretty wrote: »
Sorry not sorry? They’re so good, right? And fun! I love the colourful marshmallow bits! They just make me smile.
The trick is to get as many marshmallows as possible to "fall" into your bowl. They should take a note from Cap'n Crunch and do an "Oops all marshmallows" version. Let's just be honest about why we're eating it lol!
My freshman year of college, I invited some friends to the dining hall because I had too many meals left for the semester. One of them goes, "Ooooooh yeah. I've been waiting my entire life to do this." and proceeds to get a bowl of Lucky Charms, pick out the non-marshmallows, and eat only the marshmallows. He got maybe two-thirds of the way through and says, "Ugh. I think I'm going to be sick. I now totally get why my parents would never let me do this." Good times!
I am retroactively dedicating the two servings of Captain Crunch w/Crunch Berries I had for breakfast to this post.
A girl in my dorm used to just eat the marshmallows on a daily basis. It was entertaining to watch her pick through the cereal, she really went at that bowl.
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The author is a "certified iridologist." Iridology is quack medicine/woo that believes you can tell about a person's health/illnesses by looking at their irises. Yeah, not going to believe anything she writes.
My parents were strong believers in iridologists. They went to see one faithfully, and of course he found things wrong, dark spots here, things there...you might have an issue with your lungs (genius...both were chain smokers and you could smell them a mile away). Here, buy these expensive herbs and crap, and lo and behold, a few months later, the "spots" were gone, (though dad continued to smoke and hack all day).... they were doing well, got an admonishment to stop smoking (didn't listen), here are some other herbs now to take instead to protect you from re occurrence of those spots on your lungs...(the herbs were magical my parents though, and would work as a counter to whatever damage the cigarettes might do. Not sure if the quack told them that or they made that up themselves)
Then mom was taken to the hospital - she had a brain tumor. Back to the iridologist they went, because they wouldn't HEAR of the radiation therapy the neurologist was suggesting. Iridologist gave her some crazy stuff, cost a couple hundred bucks. Part of the regimen included fresh carrot juice 3x a day, and hideous barley green 2x a day, among other pills she had to take. Mom and dad took this guy's word that she would get better. She died six weeks later.
I wanted to go back and ask the iridologist how come he found some "spots" on her lung but never saw the big old tumor in her brain until the neurologist found it. Had the quack not been nearly 2 hours away, I would have.
I hate iridologists.0 -
daydreams_of_pretty wrote: »daydreams_of_pretty wrote: »
Sorry not sorry? They’re so good, right? And fun! I love the colourful marshmallow bits! They just make me smile.
The trick is to get as many marshmallows as possible to "fall" into your bowl. They should take a note from Cap'n Crunch and do an "Oops all marshmallows" version. Let's just be honest about why we're eating it lol!
My freshman year of college, I invited some friends to the dining hall because I had too many meals left for the semester. One of them goes, "Ooooooh yeah. I've been waiting my entire life to do this." and proceeds to get a bowl of Lucky Charms, pick out the non-marshmallows, and eat only the marshmallows. He got maybe two-thirds of the way through and says, "Ugh. I think I'm going to be sick. I now totally get why my parents would never let me do this." Good times!
I am retroactively dedicating the two servings of Captain Crunch w/Crunch Berries I had for breakfast to this post.
A girl in my dorm used to just eat the marshmallows on a daily basis. It was entertaining to watch her pick through the cereal, she really went at that bowl.
My daughter did that, now we just don't buy lucky charms anymore. I got tired of throwing soggy non-marshmallow cereal away, but I'm cheap like that lol. 0 -
It's funny how the answer to these garbage foods with little to no redeeming nutritive value is always moderation. Well gee, if 70% of the country is overweight or obese obviously the moderation message isn't reaching the masses. The solution to avoiding addictive garbage isn't not to buy it. No that's far to simple. The solution then, according to MFP users, is to ingest garbage in smaller increments, that way everything will work out just fine!
Why can't both be viable options with the individual person making the decision for themselves?
If 70% of the population is overweight, then apparently NO message is reaching the masses. At least not any message pertaining to heath, diet, exercise, etc. Or maybe they just don't care enough to make the sacrifices.
^This.
I think the percentage of people who "don't know" that you have to watch your caloric intake and balance it with exercise is tiny. The amount of people who choose to ignore that, eat however much tickles their fancy of what they want, and then spend large amounts of time parked on their butt on the Internet or the boob tube is large. It wasn't that I was unaware of how to lose weight before I joined MFP...I just didn't care enough to make the sacrifices. A lifestyle change is what has to happen...most people will never make one.
*hats off to those here who are doing something*
Oh and Froot Loops is not what was killing me...lack of self-control and exercise was what was killing me. :P0
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