To wonder who is buying chocolate cereal

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Who om each is buying Lion bar and Oreo cereal? See also lucky charms, nesquick and coco pops
These aren't breakfast foods (or any sort of food). I literally cannot imagine anyone thinking it is a reasonable way of feeding children?

It's not just about weight though is it? It's the nutrition.

You can be malnourished and not overweight.

Right. I was used to using the traditional porridge oats.

OP said "Healthy adults I also judge a bit but if you have a normal bmi and an otherwise good diet then it's up to you"
So, you're allowed to eat coco pops BUT only if you're healthy and have a good diet. If you're a bit overweight and like chips then watch out for the breakfast police 🚨.

Um, Kellog's Coco Pops has been officially a breakfast cereal for at least half a century. What isolated island have you emerged from?

Everyone is different . I can't understand why anyone likes kale, oysters, blue cheese and pate but obviously people do! If youre wondering who is buying camenbert, olives and crackers it's me for me every weekend.

Italy (and other European countries) have sweet breakfasts. Pastry, Nutella, pistachio cream, etc. washed down with a cappuccino.

A sweet breakfast is absolutely fine when balanced with the rest of the diet. Don't demonise breakfast cereals. It's diet as a whole that's poor over here. And the cost of healthy food is utterly ridiculous. I often look at my fruit bowl when I've restocked it after the weekly shop has been and shake my head at how much that cost to fill. So many people couldn't do that AND feed their kids three meals a day.

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Flahavan’s are traditional porridge oats.

That's ok for an upper class older people's dinner party. And served with caviar.

But childrens party are crisps, lollies, biscuits, sandwiches, chocolates. That's how we do things on planet earth.

You sound very very toff and out of touch with real people.

I meant how I was brought up with the Scott's Porridge Oats, which took a while to make.

So bran, wheat, and porridge aren't meals? Because all those 3 are classified as cereals, and all recommended by doctors.

We do! It only takes 5 minutes. The teens make it for themselves now.

Are toffs not real people 😱👾

I think one of the big tricks of the food industry has been to persuade the public and the media to displace all their anxiety about food onto sugar so that people end up thinking that if you have a choice of two items the lowest sugar one is by default healthier, regardless of the rest of the nutritional profile. I read a piece in the Times a while ago in which the author fretfully noted that a Pret granola bowl with fruit had the same total sugar content as a Mars bar. If only she’d known, she said, she’d just face eaten the Mars bar and enjoyed herself. (See also: home made smoothies contain as much sugar as Coca Cola.) But the granola bowl will also contain vitamins, minerals and fibre. The Mars bar will only contain dodgy fats, flavourings, and a bunch of yucky emulsifier. Regardless of the comparable sugar content it is not a similar food item at all. The same is true of the smoothie v the coke or a bowl of the dreaded cereal v a home made banana muffin. Sugar is only part of the picture.

I bet they taste as good as leftover pizza that students have

Funny thing is I went with my three year old to an extremely posh family’s birthday party for their four year old recently and it was all those horrid bright coloured party ring biscuits, chocolate fingers, and (eventually) pizza.

But Italians are the slimmest people in Europe. So we obviously are not eating our sweet breakfasts in the same frequency, size or as a treat.

I’m really tired of everyone trying to pretend the proof isn’t in the outcome of our very obese and unhealthy population

For a GP, you seem to know fuck all about how body weight says very little about health.

When I was starving and bingeing, but lowest end healthy BMI you'd have judged me as more healthy than I am now, when I am overweight (but eating good food, not starving and only very rarely bingeing - as you probably don't know, it's fucking hard to overcome an eating disorder).

Perhaps you could also ask your employer for some CPD on how part of the reason fat people have worse health is because doctors assume every symptom is due to weight and are thus unconsciously giving delayed and poorer care to them.

Exactly.

So many excuses for giving kids shit to eat because they play sport or burn it off. It's not all about obesity, it's the fact these kids are starting their day with a hefty dose of sugar on top of carbs. It's normalising eating a bowl full of sugar first thing in the morning.

And you seem to know fuck all about chance and probability. You take a slim person off the street and an obese person. Who is more likely to be healthier?

Hence the start of my next paragraph that it's fine when balanced and the point was not to demonise sweet cereal but to review the diet as a whole.

Oh come on, I’m vegetarian and even I know caviar doesn’t go with pulled pork!

Fucking hell love - you need to get a grip

I think we all know that if the OP had been a parent agonising over why her children were overweight, and had posted a food diary that included chocolate cereal, you would all be falling over yourselves to sneer at how unhealthy that was, and it’s no wonder her children were fat.

My DD sometimes has coco pops (well, supermarket own brand). I checked the sugar content and while it's obviously higher than weetabix and cornflakes it's a lot less than some of the other cereals on offer.