Which is high sugar cardboard. It's got about as much real claim to be healthy for you as, oh, I dunno, Coca Cola.
Seriously, there are some cereals which make a healthy breakfast, at least compared to a grilled full English, but some are actively 'bad' (Coco Pops? Healthy for kids? Yeah, I mean NO!), and others which use pure blandness to hide a salt and sugar level that is shameful.
(I recommend Fuzzy Pink Niven's Law: Never waste calories. Special K is a total waste of both calories and salt allowance - for the same amount of those, you could eat something nice.)
I wouldn't mind so much if Special K wasn't promoted as 'a slimming aid'. But since it is, it should always be pointed out that it's not one at all. It's all down to the advertising of the product, of which this is a particularly obnoxious example.
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(As for your main rant, I shall leave that untouched in its perfection.)
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Date: 2012-03-20 11:55 am (UTC)Which is high sugar cardboard. It's got about as much real claim to be healthy for you as, oh, I dunno, Coca Cola.
Seriously, there are some cereals which make a healthy breakfast, at least compared to a grilled full English, but some are actively 'bad' (Coco Pops? Healthy for kids? Yeah, I mean NO!), and others which use pure blandness to hide a salt and sugar level that is shameful.
(I recommend Fuzzy Pink Niven's Law: Never waste calories. Special K is a total waste of both calories and salt allowance - for the same amount of those, you could eat something nice.)
I wouldn't mind so much if Special K wasn't promoted as 'a slimming aid'. But since it is, it should always be pointed out that it's not one at all. It's all down to the advertising of the product, of which this is a particularly obnoxious example.
</rant>
(As for your main rant, I shall leave that untouched in its perfection.)