How to Pick a Healthy Breakfast Cereal

Watch Out for these Breakfast Cereal Scams

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(Via Sparkpeople.)

Eat These Foods Before and After Your Workout to Stay in Top Training Shape

The foods you eat before and after a good workout, and the fluids you drink during your workout go a long way towards making sure your exercise has the best impact on your health as possible. Whether you’re staying hydrated with a bottle of water while you’re out on a run, or debating what to munch on for a little post-workout energy, Eating Well magazine has some tips to help maximize your workout and keep you satisfied in the process.

Are Bananas Much Better Than Cookies?

Foods That Keep You Full and Prevent an Energy Crash

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(Via  Lifehacker.)

Study: Some Cereals For Kids Contain More Sugar Than A Twinkie

Study: Some Cereals For Kids Contain More Sugar Than A Twinkie:

You wouldn’t feed your kids Twinkies for breakfast (right?), so the news that some cereals aimed at kids have more sugar than those processed yellow bits of foam food is a bit disturbing. As Americans get more obese by the day, a new study warns of the sugary punch packed in many cereals.

Time cites a report by the Environmental Working Group that says in many cereals marketed to kids, one cup of cereal has more sugar than a Twinkie, and many have more of the sweet stuff than three Chips Ahoy cookies.

Part of the problem is that the cereal industry holds itself to its own nutritional standards, allowing cereals marketed to kids to have up to 38% sugar content by weight, compared to the government’s recommendation of no more than 26%.

The EWG looked at nutrition in 84 popular cereals, and the super-sweet results have prompted them to press the government to make mandatory guidelines for sugar content. “Few parents would agree that a cereal that is one-quarter sugar by weight is the best that cereal makers can do for children,” the report says.

Some of the worst offenders include Kellogg’s Honey Smacks; Post Golden Crisp; Kellogg’s Froot Loops Marshmallow; Quaker Oats Cap’n Crunch’s OOPS! All Berries and Quaker Oats Cap’n Crunch Original.

For healthier alternatives in big brand names, go for cereals like Kellogg’s Mini-Wheats (frosted or unfrosted); General Mills Cheerios Original; General Mills Kix Original; Quaker Oats Oatmeal Squares Cinnamon and Post Honey Bunches of Oats with Vanilla Bunches.

Children’s Cereal: More Sugar Than a Twinkie? [Time]

 

(Via Consumerist)

Consumer Reports Study Finds High Levels Of Arsenic & Lead In Some Fruit Juice

Consumer Reports Study Finds High Levels Of Arsenic & Lead In Some Fruit Juice

While federal standards set limits for the amount of arsenic and lead in tap and bottled water, but no such hard line exists for fruit juices, even though such drinks are dietary staples of children. Thus, our cousins-in-arms at Consumer Reports set to testing some juices, only to turn up results that should cause concern among parents and lawmakers.

(Via The Consumerist)

Sour Candy Is Almost As Bad for Your Teeth As Battery Acid

Do you have a lot of cavities? Perhaps it’s because you lost a lot of enamel sucking on sour candy when you were a kid. It’s almost as bad as battery acid—except it tastes much better.

Take a look at this chart and see who are the worse offenders.

Pure water’s pH level is 7, which is a neutral acidic level. At ph4, your teeth start losing enamel, one of the four tissues that make up teeth. Enamel it’s the hardest substance in human bodies. 96-percent is made of minerals.

As it turns out, typical sour candy is ph3, which is kind of crazy. It quickly goes to ph2.5—with Skittles, Baby Bottle Pop powder, Brach’s Gummi Bears, and Sqwigglies Gummi Worms—and 2.4 with Mentos Fruit Chew and 2.2 with Sour Skittles.

But it gets a lot worse. These are the three worse offenders—Altoids Mango Sours score a ph1.9 while Wonka Fun Dip Powder gets down to ph1.8. The worst is WarHeads Sour Spray, only 0.6 less acid than battery acid. [Northwest Dentistry via Kottke]

(Via Gizmodo)

What your kids should eat to do well in school – The Globe and Mail

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How To Stop ‘Packs From Messing With Your Kids’ Backs – The Consumerist

An article to get you thinking about ‘Back to School’.

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Skin Experts: Sunburns During Childhood Double Risk Of Skin Cancer

In case you needed any more reason to protect your kids from the sun, skin care experts say sunburns in childhood and adolescence double victims’ chances of suffering skin cancer later in life.

From The Consumerist

The Best Post-Exercise Drink

Forget sports drinks, the best beverage to have after a workout or hard race is chocolate milk, studies say.

The Best Post-Exercise Drink: Chocolate Milk