Jan08
Elizabeth Wurtzel’s Nonlack Of Regrets
on January 8, 2013 at 8:16 am…and the sugar content of Trix. An eclectic Bleat today.
I have no recollection of the Bugs/Trix interaction. But it’s amazing in retrospect how much sugar I ate in cereal as a kid, and didn’t get fat. Though I think we were more active than a lot of kids today.
There are several reasons for obesity in children today, it’s not the calories going in, it’s what not being used in activity:
1. The widespread use of residential air conditioning… kids stay in and not go out.
2. The Community Mental Health Act of 1963… kids are leashed, the insane roam free.
3. Rise of TV, internet, electronic-mediated interaction, and electronic games instead of active games and real interaction
“Though I think we were more active than a lot of kids today.”
I know we were – even lazy-assed compulsive readers like me.
There was also the recent finding linking obesity and diabetes directly to a gut bacteria called enterobacter cloaca, which signals the body to store energy as fat, cut off the fat-burning metabolism, and screw up insulin signaling.
That, and corn sweetner taking the place of beet or cane sucrose.
I would imagine sugar contributed more to cavities than obesity.