Where are Healthy Breakfast Foods?

here are Healthy Breakfast Foods?

 

While surfing the web I came across numerous Web sites that market breakfast foods. If the Web site markets to children, parents need to monitor the content, limit time on the site, and caution children about marketing vs. education. Video games lure children to Web sites that market breakfast foods to them. Parents need to help children eat a healthy breakfast, the most important meal of the day.

 

Quaker Oats seem to demonstrate good results when customers eat oatmeal for breakfast. When they add raisins or blueberries, they obtain fruit and dairy servings to the grain serving. Benjamin Franklin lived to be 84, and his likeness is on the Web site and Quaker Oats packages to indicate that Quaker Oats will add to longevity. Even though he was born into a Quaker family, he did not embrace the religion. www.quakeroats.com will give nutritional information on this excellent, time-honored breakfast food. Busy mothers like the Quaker Oats Bars for snacks as well as breakfast.

 

For more than 30 years Lucky Charms is an oat cereal with colorful marshmallows has been poured into cereal bowls. When milk is added a grain and dairy serving is breakfast. The Web site entices children with games and activities at www.luckycharms.millsbury.com. After 15 minutes of activities, a warning occurs to go outside and play. Children can spend hours on free Internet games. This reminder might get them out of the house or apartment for some outdoor activity. Children are becoming obese by inactivity and improper food selections. Parents need to purchase healthy breakfast foods.

 

Schools once provided vitamin enriched milk for students. Now many schools provide flavored milk. Parents need to avoid chemicals, artificial flavorings, and excess sugar in dairy products. Children who will not drink milk will with additions of Hershey syrup, Nesquik, and Ovaltine. The Nesquik Web site, www.nesquik.com draws children with activities and video games. Pediatricians feel that video games are addictive, and they feel that children cannot discern marketing from education.

 

When parents feel rushed in the morning, they find products like Pop Tarts helpful. They load the children in the car, pass out Pop Tarts, and they eat them on the way to school or church. A Pop Tart is 225 calories of carbohydrate and sugar. To keep the brand alive for children, Pop Tarts have over 25 video games and activities on the Web site, www.poptarts.com. While they play Cinnamon drag Race or avoid being eaten by alligators in Swamp Watch, the video games keep them on this branded Web site.

 

Parents need to help children make healthy choices for breakfast so that they will perform well in school.