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NEWS ABOUT: cereal

cereal stories: 4 news summaries
85% more sugar, anyone?

Worst Cereals Are Most Heavily Marketed to Kids

Industry's promise to self-regulate an 'abject failure'

Oct 26, 09 10:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Cereals marketed to kids are drastically less nutritious than those pitched to adults, despite industry promises to clean up its act, finds a new study from Yale’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. The study confirms what a quick glance at the cereal aisle would tell you: Cereals... More »

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nutrition • childhood obesity • cereal • breakfast cereal

OPINION

 How Cereal Shaped America 

Charting the evolution and influence of the grain-based breakfast

Dec 14, 08 10:01 AM CST
(Newser) - We might be eating hockey pucks for breakfast if a 19th-century kitchen accident hadn’t turned John Kellogg’s “barely edible” biscuits into today’s far-tastier flakes, Ian Lender writes in Mental Floss. “The cereal flake is the perfect consumer product,” he says, looking at how cereal... More »

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advertising • Kellogg • cereal • pop culture • culture • breakfast

 Record Food Price Hikes Loom

Biggest increases for 20 years forecast

Aug 21, 08 7:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - Americans should get ready for pain at the supermarket checkout, reports Reuters—and squash any hopes of food prices getting better next year. A revised USDA forecast predicts a 5% to 6% leap in food prices this year—the biggest increase in 20 years—and USDA officials fear 2009 could... More »

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inflation • cereal • USDA • food prices • Ed Schafer • meat and poultry • fruit and vegetables • Fall harvest

Kellogg Will Ease Off Ads Aimed at Kids

Cereal giant plans voluntary nutrition, marketing changes

Jun 15, 07 7:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Averting a threatened lawsuit, Kellogg will reformulate its cereals and snack foods to make them more nutritious—or keep them as is and stop targeting advertising at children under 12. The plan affects about half of the company's offerings, meaning that fans of Pop-Tarts and Rice Krispies may be getting... More »

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obesity • food • nutrition • advertising • childhood obesity • obesity epidemic • marketing • children • Kellogg • cereal

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