Friday Favorites: Are Fortified Kids’ Breakfast Cereals Healthy or Just Candy?

The industry’s response to the charge that breakfast cereals are too sugary. Want a healthier option? Check out Which Is a Better Breakfast: Cereal or Oatmeal? (). More on the effects of sugar on the body: • If Fructose Is Bad, What About Fruit? () • How Much Fruit Is Too Much? () • How Much Added Sugar Is Too Much? () • Big Sugar Takes on the World Health Organization () • Does Diet Soda Increase Stroke Risk as Much as Regular Soda? () • How to Stop Tooth Decay () And if you like these more politically-charged videos, you might appreciate: • A Political Lesson on the Power of the Food Industry () • The Food Industry Wants the Public Confused About Nutrition () • Sugar Industry Attempts to Manipulate the Science () Check out these videos on cereal: Kids’ Breakfast Cereals as Nutritional Façade () and Ochratoxin in Breakfast Cereals (). New subscribers to our e-newsletter always receive a free gift. Get yours here: Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at and someone on the team will try to answer it. Want to get a list of links to all the scientific sources used in this video? Click on Sources Cited at You’ll also find a transcript and acknowledgements for the video, my blog and speaking tour schedule, and an easy way to search (by translated language even) through our videos spanning more than 2,000 health topics. Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution! -Michael Greger, MD FACLM Captions for this video are available in several languages; you can find yours in the video settings. View important information about our translated resources: • Subscribe: • Donate: • Podcast : • Books: • Shop: • Facebook: • Twitter: • Instagram: