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Re:Fat, Not Meat, May Have Led to Bigger Hominin Brains by toomanybeersies on Sunday April 07, 2019 @09:21PM (#19601196)
Breakfast cereals are about one of the worst things you can actually eat for breakfast. At best it's just a bowl of wholegrain carbs (e.g. oatmeal, muesli), and at worst just a bowl full of refined carbs and sugar (frosted flakes, Froot Loops). They're so devoid of nutrition that they usually have to fortify it with vitamins and minerals just so that people don't end up malnourished from eating it.

You'd genuinely be better off eating cheeseburgers for breakfast than most breakfast cereals.

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Re:Fat, Not Meat, May Have Led to Bigger Hominin Brains by balfirevic on Sunday April 07, 2019 @10:11PM (#19601402)
> Breakfast cereals are about one of the worst things you can actually eat for breakfast. At best it's just a bowl of wholegrain carbs (e.g. oatmeal, muesli)

What's the problem with that? They are not supposed to be your sole source of macro-nutrients. If you get your protein and fats in other meals during the day it's perfectly fine.

> They're so devoid of nutrition that they usually have to fortify it with vitamins and minerals just so that people don't end up malnourished from eating it.

You can't end up malnourished from eating cereals, you can only end up malnourished from not eating anything else. And no one is eating only cereals. Anyway, since you yourself said they are fortified with vitamins and minerals, it sounds like they are just fine after all.

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Re:Fat, Not Meat, May Have Led to Bigger Hominin Brains by Moru on Monday April 08, 2019 @03:01AM (#19602806)
They are only fortified with a couple of vitamins that society has decided is the most important for not causing the whole population to end up with scurvy. If you eat a balanced diet, you will eat a random selection of everything. All things contain different nutrients that are important for us and since we don't know exactly which ones, we say balanced diet when we mean everything.
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