SAN JOSE, Calif. (CN) – The maker of Nutri-Grain bars and Frosted Mini-Wheats must answer a legal challenge in federal court in San Jose, California. The challenge says Kellogg’s breakfast cereals are unhealthy and contribute to obesity and disease because they are laced with extra sugar. A 64-page ruling has been issued by U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh. Judge Koh granted in part and denied in part Kellogg’s motion to dismiss a class action claiming several of its cereals and breakfast bars are labeled as healthy when they contain enough sugar to seriously compromise the health of people who eat it regularly.
Plaintiff Stephen Hadley says he has eaten Kellogg’s products in the morning for several years, believing that he was eating healthy options. However, he claims he just recently discovered that the amount of sugar the company puts in its products puts him at great risk of contracting diseases related to excessive consumption of sugary foods.
Diseases that can be caused by the excess sugar in Kellogg's products include: metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, liver disease, obesity, inflammation, high cholesterol, hypertension, Alzheimer’s disease, and some cancers.
“The court finds that the ‘nutritious,’ “essential nutrients,” and ‘wholesome’ statements cannot be dismissed as puffery in the instant motion to dismiss,” Judge Koh wrote.
Bottom-line: take a look at the full list of ingredients in a Nutri-Grain bar. Half the ingredients are sugars of some sort. That other half of the ingredients are manufactured chemical crap.
Simples rules:
1) If something tastes like a chocolate bar, it probably isn't healthy. Unless it is a real to goodness dark chocolate bar, which does have some health benefits when consumed in moderation
2) If the ingredient list is longer than your arm and contains 10+ different chemicals that you can't pronounce, don't assume it is healthy. Assume it is unhealthy.
3) If you want a healthy snack bar, look for an ingredient list not longer than 5 or 6 ingredients. You should be able to pronounce every single ingredient and every single ingredient should be healthy in it's own right.
4) If the food was manufactured and then packaged in a cardboard box, there is a high probability it is not healthy. Don't buy food in cardboard boxes, and then you won't eat food from cardboard boxes (and slowly kill yourself)
Many of America's biggest food companies have morphed into a new strange animals that sell "food products" that can be very damaging to your health in the long term. The "foods" they manufacture and sell can kill you.
Stay away from buying any type of "processed food" sold in cardboard boxes. The large corporate so-called food producers aren't selling food that is anything like what your ancestors ate and thrived on for the last 100 centuries. They are selling manufactured chemical crap laced with up to 40% sugar content that will slowly, and then quickly and suddenly at the end, kill you.
Shop around the edges of the grocery store. Buy as little as possible from the center aisles - where they stock all the cardboard boxes with the manufactured poisons and toxins that your body can't process.
Do you find these comments inflammatory and too extreme?
Let me close then with the list of diseases that are alleged caused by excessively sugary manufactured foods, such as Kellogg's Nutri-Grain bars as exhibit one. Kellogg's interest in getting you to buy (and presumably eat) foods that will kill you is more than obscene.
Diseases that can be caused by the excess sugar in Kellogg's products include: metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, liver disease, obesity, inflammation, high cholesterol, hypertension, Alzheimer’s disease, and some cancers.
Please upvote if this was a wake-up call to get the hell out of the center aisles in your grocery store.
Stop buying the manufactured poisons and toxins that the behemoths in American food industry are peddling.
STEEM On!!
DaveB
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/11474537/Healthy-cereal-bars-contain-more-than-40-sugar.html
http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2016/04/26/unhealthiest-breakfast-cereal-bars.html
https://www.courthousenews.com/kellogg-cant-duck-class-action-cereal-labels/