“The #1 Best Cereal for Weight Loss, Dietitian Says” by Karen Graham discusses what Graham believes to be the best cereal to eat to lose weight based on how much sugar, carbs, and fiber are in the product. Once considering the amount of sugar, carb, and fiber in each cereal, she ranks them based on her own opinion on what’s better rather than studies and hard data. The whole article seems to be an advertisement for Cheerios more than anything else and occasionally adds other cereals to criticism them or give them the occasional praise. Graham then ends the article with saying that people should just eat what they want in moderation rather than following her advice. I think it was worth to mention that she did mention to not listen to claims on cereal boxes since they could be misleading.
This article was misleading since it mostly spoke about Cheerios as if advertising it. It also failed to list the best cereals for different races and ethnicities since and instead focused on the majority, which are white people in the USA. In “Should the Dietary Guidelines Help Fight Systemic Racism?” Gosia Wozniacka says that people that focus on the majority are “missing the ball” when they don’t worry about other races and ethnicities health conditions and the chronic diseases that affect them (Wozniacka, 1). Graham fails to mention the lack of health benefits of eating these cereals (specially Cheerios) as a “dietitian” and instead focuses on the aspect of weight loss. Graham fails to mention how these cereals she’s recommending use lots of sugar on the coating alone or how they use processes as gun puffing and extrusion to create these cereals (Warner, 65) as explain in “Pandora’s Lunchbox” by Melanie Warner. Because the lack of information on these topics, it makes me wonder if Gosia Wozniacka actually cares about the health of the people she’s writing to, or if she is just trying to get money off of people clicking on her site. |