• CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    When I was a teen in highschool… I was in a weightlifting gym class and I did soccer. When is get home, for a snack if have a party pizza (or two). Probably went through a carton of milk myself. God my mom was so pissed. I was probably half or grocery budget alone for a few years

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        I’m sure you could scarf down an entire party size bag of Doritos on your own as well. That doesn’t make it a good or preferred source of nutrition.

        Try asking the kid if he can routinely scarf down a dozen eggs every morning. He won’t, unless he’s the size of Andre The Giant, because that’s actual food that will correctly signal satiety.

        https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/are-breakfast-cereals-healthy#sugar-carbs

        Anyways I assume the story is referring to the industrial sludge Americans call “breakfast cereal”, garbage that is designed to be addictive. And not, say, some kind of ancestral Kashi type of thing.

        If it were actual food, you wouldn’t be able to eat so much of it. Nothing in nature would have been easily available in industrial quantities like that, making it extremely unlikely we evolved to eat so much of it. It’s engineered to be that way.

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          I could eat an entire fucking box of plain “corn flakes” if you let me when I was 16. No sugar, no milk. Was some store brand knock off cereal too. Didn’t even have added sugar. Was basically cardboard flakes.

          But fuck did I love them. I miss those shitty ass cereals now everything has a pound of added sugar ):

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    11 hours ago

    I’m still can’t believe some crazy guy 100 years ago convinced the whole country that eating sugar with milk is somehow a healthy breakfast. And the same guy convinced the same country to do the genital mutilation on male infants.

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      Kellogg’s theory was that bland foods that were full of fiber would stop people from masturbating.

      Because he didn’t approve of that kind of icky nonsense.

      So I think the sugar came later.

      I think Graham of Graham crackers was working with a similar concept.

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      You’re combining the two Kellogg brothers. One thought that pleasure was sin, and that a good diet should be as bland as possible to maintain piety. The other thought his brother’s cereal tasted like shit and was really hard to market and sell, until he added sugar and salt, then subsequently became filthy rich.

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        Ironically, pre-sugared cereal may have also reduced the amount of sugar in kids’ cereal. For a while, kids were taking regular cereal and dumping sugar on it. Instead of actually parenting and telling them no, the parents started buying sugary cereal.

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      And both were done with the goal of reducing masturbation.

      Knowing better has a full day’s worth of content on this, if you’d like to know more

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    Cereal is the most delicious thing in the universe that doesn’t require anything more than pouring two things into a bowl. No peeling, heating, mixing, blending, layering, etc. Two things, in a bowl, and you don’t use goes back in the place it came from.

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    13 hours ago

    To be fair, my husband will just have 6 bowls of cereal in a row all of a sudden.

    But my son… here he is with his mixing bowl.

    Edit: when my son went through a miso soup phase, he would get the big mixing bowl and use a whole block of tofu. Probably straight up 2L of miso broth. For context, he is 6’2” and 19.

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    13 hours ago

    It’s human kibble basically

    Try this:

    1. instead of a giant bowl pour a regular bowl with extra milk
    2. when you finish the cereal do not drink the milk
    3. pour more cereal
    4. repeat as desired
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    I knew a family that told their adult teenage son he could only have one bowl of cereal in the morning and that is what he did.