{"id":4662,"date":"2009-12-10T14:23:13","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T20:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/?p=4662"},"modified":"2010-01-02T22:50:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T04:50:08","slug":"general-mills-cutting-sugar-in-cereals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/2009\/12\/10\/general-mills-cutting-sugar-in-cereals\/","title":{"rendered":"General Mills to Cut Sugar in 10 Kids Cereals"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"kid<\/a>I don’t know about you, but I grew up on cereal.\u00c2\u00a0 Although, while I was eating Cheerios and not adding sugar, some of my friends were eating all kinds of sugary, chocolatey cereals and still dumping sugar on them!\u00c2\u00a0 Yet, somehow, we didn’t have the childhood obesity problems that plague kids now.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe it was all the tag during recess or bicycling around the neighborhood instead of computers, tv and video games.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, the past is the past and our kids now are getting bigger everyday.\u00c2\u00a0 General Mills has announced that they will be reducing the sugar content on 10 of their popular kids cereals, taking some of them to single digits – this is good news.\u00c2\u00a0 I usually try to eat cereals that have less than 7g per serving so maybe this will open up some other options.\u00c2\u00a0 General Mills is hoping to do this by spring.\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently, they have already reduced sugar in some of their cereals by up to 20%.<\/p>\n

Fit Links:<\/strong>
\nGeneral Mills Plans To Further Cut Sugar In Children’s Cereals\u00c2\u00a0 – Wall Steet Journal<\/a>
\nGeneral Mills Cutting Sugar in Kids’ Cereals – MSNBC<\/a><\/p>\n

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I don’t know about you, but I grew up on cereal.\u00c2\u00a0 Although, while I was eating Cheerios and not adding sugar, some of my friends were eating all kinds of sugary, chocolatey cereals and still dumping sugar on them!\u00c2\u00a0 Yet, somehow, we didn’t have the childhood obesity problems that plague […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,707,711,709,23,9,708,712,8,93,710,706,375,21],"class_list":["post-4662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-amy-mac","tag-cereal","tag-childhood-obesity","tag-cutting-sugar-in-cereal","tag-fit-life","tag-fitness","tag-general-mills","tag-general-mills-cutting-sugar-in-cereals","tag-health","tag-health-and-fitness","tag-healthier-breakfast-options","tag-kids-health","tag-personal-health","tag-withamymac"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t