Kids' Breakfast Cereals as Nutritional Façade
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2020-03-09

Plastering front-of-package nutrient claims on cereal boxes is an attempt to distract from the incongruity of feeding our children multicolored marshmallows for breakfast.

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I was invited to testify as an expert witness in a case against sugary cereal companies (donating my fee, of course), and this extended video series is a result of some of the research I did into those cases. Here’s are some of the others: 
· The Worst Food for Tooth Decay (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-worst-food-for-tooth-decay)
· Which Is a Better Breakfast: Cereal or Oatmeal? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/which-is-a-better-breakfast-cereal-or-oatmeal/)
· A Political Lesson on the Power of the Food Industry (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/a-political-lesson-on-the-power-of-the-food-industry/)
· The Worst Food for Tooth Decay (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-worst-food-for-tooth-decay/)
· Are Fortified Kids’ Breakfast Cereals Healthy or Just Candy? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Are-Fortified-Kids-Breakfast-Cereals-Healthy-or-Just-Candy)

Lots of other food industry videos, too!: 
· Big Sugar Takes on the World Health Organization (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/big-sugar-takes-on-the-world-health-organization)
· Food Industry Funded Research Bias (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/food-industry-funded-research-bias/)
· Big Food Using the Tobacco Industry Playbook (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/big-food-using-the-tobacco-industry-playbook/)
· Would Taxing Unhealthy Foods Improve Public Health? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/would-taxing-unhealthy-foods-improve-public-health)
· The Food Industry Wants the Public Confused About Nutrition (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/The-Food-Industry-Wants-the-Public-Confused-About-Nutrition)
· Sugar Industry Attempts to Manipulate the Science (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/sugar-industry-attempts-to-manipulate-the-science)

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