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The Vitamin and Mineral Minute: Niacin

Your day breaks, your mind aches. You find that all the words on the back of the cereal box linger on when you leave the table. It’s time for another day at the office.
Luckily for you, manufactured cereals are fortified with all sorts of nutritious vitamins and minerals. The bad news is that some recent [...]

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Flakes puffed with protein, puffs flakey

It’s a question as old as history itself. I believe it was a young Solomon who first wondered aloud “And what is more healthy, a flake or a puff of cereal? And lo he cast his glance upon him, and turned him thusly to a pillar of salt.” Seeking to answer this question, [...]

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The Vitamin and Mineral Minute: Riboflavin

Your day breaks, your mind aches. You find that all the words on the back of the cereal box linger on when you leave the table. It’s time for another day at the office.
Luckily for you, manufactured cereals are fortified with all sorts of nutritious vitamins and minerals. The bad news [...]

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Maxim Study: Cereal May be Good/Bad For You

Maximonline, not to be confused with Maxlemonlime, the new citrus green tea infused energy drink I’m preparing to roll out this spring (Catch the Catechins!©), has a crudely thrown together article about the 6 most healthy and unhealthy breakfast cereals. They have a brief list of pros and cons for each, but they do [...]

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Breast is Best

I didn’t want to be the first to broach the subject, so luckily Gerber has taken that awkward responsibility from me. Any guesses as to what they recommend as a baby’s first solid food? I’ll give you a moment to read the banner at the top of the page…
That’s right, baby! Cereal. Cereal served with [...]

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Cereal Sticks

Update! I got a lot of hate mail last night regarding my post about the iron in cereal. A lot of you thought I was full of chocolate, and that I was pulling your chocolate when I said cereal would stick to a magnet. Well morons, I had my boy Elliot do [...]

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Blood & Iron

Hide the (stupid) kids. Knowledge bomb incoming. You know that any common household magnet is super attracted to ferrous metals and alloys. You also know that yummy yum cereals like General Mills’ Whole Grain Total contain 100% of your daily value of iron. So what would you say if I asked [...]

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