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I wonder how much a nutritionally empty, low fat diet is setting kids up for the anxiety and depression that seems to drive so much alcohol and drug abuse. At a
by SoftwareMaven 12y ago
I wonder how much a nutritionally empty, low fat diet is setting kids up for the anxiety and depression that seems to drive so much alcohol and drug abuse. At a time when major structural changes and growth are happening in the brain, changes and growth that require a lot of fatty acids for creating nerve and other brain cells, kids are getting Fruit Loops and skim milk as their nutrition source.
- yaks_hairbrush 12y agoFruit Loops sound like they wouldn't be too bad. Instead, the Kellogg's product is called Froot Loops. It's a bit fitting: a bastardization of the spelling which underscores the bastardization of nutrition going on with the product.
- mercer 12y agoIt might actually be a legal issue too. At least here in Holland there are strict rules as to the naming of product. That's why we call peanut butter 'pindakaas', for example, which means 'peanut cheese'; producers were not allowed to use 'butter' in the name if the product did not contain actual butter.