Nibbles: Some cereals are half sugar, plus world’s fattest man to wed and cooking with balls
Several brands have more sugar than glazed doughnut
Consumer Reports has found that nine brands of cereal marketed to children that they studied have at least forty percent sugar and a couple are at least half sugar. Post Golden Crisp and Kellogg’s Honey Smacks came out with the most sugar by weight, while the healthiest choices in terms of being low in sugar and high in fiber were Cheerios, Kix, Honey Nut Cheerios and Life cereals. The survey also found that when kids serve themselves cereal, they end up with a serving50 to 65 percent larger than the recommended serving size…
Cartoon spokespeople aren’t helping childhood obesity
When cartoon characters are used to promote food, they’re never used to promote healthier products. That’s according to a report from the British consumer group Which?, which looked at 19 different characters and the products they promoted. A lunch wrap promoted by a cartoon cow had more than a third of the amount of salt a child should eat, while Tony the Tiger’s cereal is a third sugar. Still, the cereal companies in particular say the mascots are older than the obesity problem so they can’t be blamed (but we’ll bet the products they’re selling have gotten a lot more sugary, and thus higher in calories, over the years)…
Uribe says he’ll wed this month
Manuel Uribe, named the world’s fattest man in 2007 who has since lost half his body weight, has announced that he’ll be getting married later this month at his home in Monterrey, Mexico. He’s lost 570 pounds and is down from a high of 1,300 pounds, having used The Zone diet to lose the weight. He’s been engaged for two years and is planning a “hefty wedding” with a “low-calorie banquet,” he told Agence France-Presse…
China says its milk is clean while tainted candy found in U.S.
China says the latest tests on dairy products there have found no more melamine, but stores have been asked to display lists of trusted brands to regain consumer confidence. At the same time the scandal continues to spread abroad, with Taiwan pulling Nestle products, South Korea finding more melamine in products there, and reports in both Germany and the United States of tainted candy. And one set of parents of a child who died from drinking tainted formula is suing the milk company, though the lawsuit has not yet been accepted by the court…
Obese people don’t do as well with asthma treatment
People with asthma who are overweight or obese don’t respond as well as others to steroid treatments, according to a study from the National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver. The study looked at non-smoking adults and found that the body’s response to the steroid commonly used to treat asthma was strongly reduced, but only in people with asthma. Those who didn’t have asthma had the same response regardless of weight, so researchers say more study is needed to find the role weight plays in cutting the body’s response to steroids with asthma…
Serbian chef publishes testicle cookbook
Finally, we aren’t ones to judge what other people find tasty, or aphrodisiacs, so we’ll mention with a straight face the new cookbook by Ljubomir Erovic called Cooking with Balls, which, of course, is devoted to testicle cookery. The ebook provides recipes for all sorts of balls, from turkeys to sheep, ostriches to pigs. Erovic says the ones with the most aphrodisiac properties come from stallions and sheep. I just don’t know what to say about that.
(By Sarah E. White for CalorieLab Calorie Counter News)
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