The Cereal that Causes Heart disease, Diabetes, Weight gain, Premature aging, and more

You have to admit they know what they are doing.  If you have kids, you know what I’m talking about.  I’m talking about kids cereals and the company’s that market them.  Everything they do (everything but make a healthy cereal that is) they do right.  Their commercials, their characters on the boxes, their location in the store,  the high sugar content… all play perfectly into the sensibilities and interests of young children.  I myself, remember as a young child the excitement of picking out a new cereal.  Of course I was excited, the cereal was basically sugar with little else.  It’s hard to say how we got here.

  

How did adults let the most important meal of the day, get abducted by commercial food grade garbage?  How did we let this happen to our children?  These are questions about human behavior (over the past 150 years) about why we self destruct.  Of course, these questions cannot be answered here.  But what we can answer is what we get (or our children get) out of a bowl of conventional children’s cereal.

   

What Conventional store bought cereal gives you:

• Sugar, and lots of it!  And yes its the heavily refined stuff.  If you want to give your children a nice helping of sugar to get their day going, well give them a bowl conventional children’s cereal.  If you follow the nutrition label on a box of Lucky Charms for instance (and your kids only eat 1 cup of cereal with 1/2 cup of milk… which they don’t), they will be nice a charged with 19 grams of refined sugar.
• Gluten, almost unavoidable in conventional cereals.  However, we are starting to see a few options for gluten free, but they still don’t have any nutrients.  On the subject of gluten, Celiacs disease can form at any age in anybody (especially those with a family history).  But even if you don’t have full on Celiacs disease, you still very well may have a intolerance to gluten that makes you easily gain weight, retain water, suffer from internal inflammation, have a poor immune system, etc.
• Corn and it isn’t the way it used to be.  Unfortunately, almost all of the corn in the world today is genetically modified (GMO).  It is much harder for our bodies to metabolize and convert into something actually useful.
• Synthetic Sweeteners are often used in addition to sugar (sometimes in substitute of) to really get your kids hooked on the flavor.  Some of these, like Aspartame, have been linked to cerebral disorders.
• A whole lot of nothing.  This is the worst part.  These cereals are basically nutrition-less.  What “nutrition” they claim on the label, is nothing but artificial vitamins and minerals with basically no actual nutritional affect on your body as they are not absorbed well, and even if they were are not the real thing!

There are alternatives such as buckwheat and quinoa which are gluten free.  Cereals made from rice are also a better option as rice has been less genetically impacted by genetic modification than corn and wheat.  It also is gluten free and frankly is one of the most common foods on the planet and has been for a long, long time.  Also look for cereals that have dried fruits and nuts which provide proteins, healthy fats and vitamins (real vitamins).  Don’t be fooled by the bright colors like a 5 year old.  Make healthy choices for your family so they can really start the day right!

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'Nothing like almost shooting someone to set your head right lol': Sheriff's deputy is sacked after tasteless Snapchat post

 A Florida sheriff’s deputy is out of a job after a photo surfaced of him boasting about almost shooting someone to “set [his] head right.”

The Snapchat photo, which was posted June 25, shows Deputy Austen Callus, 23, sitting in a vehicle in plain clothes. The caption read, “Nothing like almost shooting someone to set your head right lol. God I gate people with knives.” It is assumed that “gate” was a typo of the word “hate.” The incident he was referring to was a domestic violence call involving a knife.

On Thursday, Pinellas County Sherif Bob Gualtieri fired Callus, a patrol deputy, saying that the photo raised doubts about Callus’ mindset when he’s out on the job.

“If you make that kind of a statement … you’re not going to be employed here as a deputy sheriff because it calls into question your thoughts, your motives, and certainly leaves the deputy and the agency in a very bad situation if something were to happen in the future,” Gualtieri said, according to the Tampa Bay Times.

Too right, because had Callus actually shot someone ... well.

Anyway, it turns out that the Good Samaritan who called Callus out was a friend of his who reported the photo, along with several others that were taken while Callus was on-duty in his cruiser as well as off-duty. The woman told the sheriff’s office that Callus’ girlfriend has recently broken up with him and that he’d been drinking heavily.

Around the same time, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement analysts caught wind of the photo, which was making rounds on social media.

“This is the kind of cop Pinellas county sheriff’s office hires?” wrote one Facebook user who shared the photo. “Someone who wants to shoot someone just to get his head right?”

According to Gualtieri, throughout the investigation, Callus never said anything that eased Gualtieri’s concern over what the photo depicted and said.

“So we can’t have somebody as a deputy who makes that kind of a statement … when he’s going through all this personal turmoil that’s going on,” Gualtieri added.

Boston Police Officer Suspended Without Pay for Making ‘Black People Have Met Their Match’ Video

A Boston police officer will be suspended for six months without pay after making a racially charged video that featured the tagline, “This summer, black people have met their match,” police officials confirmed Thursday.

According to the Boston Globe, Officer Joseph DeAngelo Jr. recorded the video like a trailer. The footage featured Officer Dennis Leahy—who police say did not know he was part of the video. The trailer opened with the words, “In a fight between good and evil comes an unlikely pair,” showing the image of Leahy and a dog wearing a cast. The footage described the pair as an “inept cop” and “a dog with a limp” before the words, “Black people have met their match” ran over the image of a black woman.

Boston Police Commissioner William B. Evans said that he struggled with determining an appropriate discipline for DeAngelo, who has been with the department for four years. Evans said that DeAngelo told investigators that the video was meant to be a spoof on Leahy.

“It’s a disservice when some of our officers behave like this,” Evans said. “We’ve built a lot of trust and respect in the community, and we want that to continue.”

 

DeAngelo ended up sending the video via text to three other police officers, a civilian employee and at least six others friends. He was placed on leave on June 15 after he admitted he’d shot the video.

“He caused some harm not only to his reputation, but the department’s reputation,” Evans said, adding that DeAngelo is sorry about his actions.

“I regret the embarrassment this has caused for the Police Department and regret that my actions may very well make our jobs as police officers more difficult,” DeAngelo wrote in an open letter of apology that was released. “We all make mistakes in life, and some are bigger than others. I made a big one and ask for your forgiveness.”

DeAngelo is expected to remain on probation for an additional six months after returning to work, the Globe notes.