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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Breakfast of Champions?

Michael Phelps has done it; he's won more gold medals in swimming than any other Olympic athlete in history. Beginning mid-September, his face will appear on cereal boxes of ... Frosted Flakes. The decision has drawn sharp criticism from health experts.
"The announcement yesterday that Phelps... would grace Frosted Flakes and Corn Flakes boxes instead of the traditional athlete's choice of Wheaties left many perplexed. Frosted Flakes has three times the amount of sugar as Wheaties and 1/3 the fiber."
Those things don't matter much to someone like Phelps who consumes 12,000 calories a day, but to parents and pediatricians concerned about childhood obesity, it sends the wrong message. Source: New York Daily News

Labels: role_models, influences, breakfast

Posted By: Aspen Education Group