Comments on: Champions can eat any kind of cereal they want!

By: DavidL

DavidL — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:37:45 +0000

So what does Rebecca Solomon know about winning Olympic gold medals? Nothing.

As far as I know, Micheal Phelps is not a hero. He just a great athlete. We, as a society, should stop confusing the two.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:15:21 +0000

When I was a kid I ate all kinds of junk food and wasn’t fat at all (until I got older, when hormones and Miller High Life kicked in). But do you know how I stayed in healthy shape after eating a few bowls of Golden Grahams? Because after my 10:00 breakfast and an hour or two of Mega Man III, my mom would turn the Nintendo off and lock me and my friends out of the house and tell us there’s a hose out back if we’re thirsty and that we weren’t going to “sit in her house all day sucking up the A/C and getting fat while she’s trying to clean”.

That’s the problem these days. Parents would rather just give their kids whatever they want to pacify them, but they hold the ceral/toy/cartoon advertisers responsible for making their children want things that are good for them. That’s how I intend to be when I have kids. They won’t have a TV, XBOX, or computer in their room. They will be in the living room and after a certain time in the evening they will be turned off and the kid can either spend time with the family or he can read a damn book.

On a side note, there’s nothing that irks me more than people who buy DVD players to put in the backseat of the car to entertain the kids (read: keep them quiet). I will never do that. All my life I’ve had a creative imagination and have always fancied myself as sort of a deep-thinker, and I didn’t get that way by watching Nemo and Spongebob while we drove 18 hours to my aunt’s house in Tennessee every summer. I got that way by staring out the window, observing the world, coming up with games to play, and actually listening to my parents tell stories about their lives. People say “Well, you say that now, but when you’ve got a whining, crying kid in the backseat, you’ll change your tune”. I say that’s bullshit. If you don’t have enough willpower, focus, and determination to outlast a crying child, then you’re not really much of an adult yourself.

Thanks for allowing me to rant a little.

By: CaptDMO

CaptDMO — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:10:08 +0000

I was always more impressed by the Cartoon Cap’n than the cartoon tiger. Maybe I should have idolized the cartoon Quaker, but then again, I was NEVER fat. Must have been all that running around I was allowed to pursue as a boy 40 years ago.

By: WayneB

WayneB — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:39:32 +0000

Oh, and another point – how many people who eat the cereals without much added sugar do so without adding their own sugar (usually more than the manufacturers of the other cereals do)?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:55:18 +0000

When I was little, I ate cheerios. I LOVED my cheerios. I loved them so much because my dad ate them! I could have cared less if there was a person on the cover. To this day, I eat cheerios, and grape nuts, because my dad ate them, and I got hooked, not because the box was cool.

By: WayneB

WayneB — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:38:14 +0000

Heh. Take a look here for some of the most common cereals. Yeah, Frosted Flakes have more sugar than Wheaties or Cheerios, but take a look at the ones with fruit in them, like the various Raisin Brans, which are supposed to he good for you. I agree that telling your kids that they can eat pretty much whatever they want if they work as hard as Phelps is better than putting his face on some box they're never likely to see.

By: Scott Jacobs

Scott Jacobs — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:09:49 +0000

“I would rather see him promoting Fiber One. I would rather see him promoting oatmeal. I would even rather see him promoting Cheerios.”
Phelps was heard to respond “Bitch, I’ll plug whatever I want… Do you have any idea what I eat in a day??”