To the editor: As a registered nurse who works in an emergency room and much too recurrently cares for sufferers with preventable illnesses, I used to be alarmed to see the featured photo in the print California section exhibiting elementary college kids studying a guide sponsored by a widely known processed breakfast cereal.
Publicity to this sort of propagandist commercial at such a young younger age is unlucky given the rising charges of weight problems and diabetes in youth fueled largely by the elevated consumption of ultra-processed, sugar-laden meals.
Consuming patterns, tastes and preferences are initiated in early childhood. Subsequently, establishing and inspiring healthful dietary decisions of entire, unprocessed meals — wealthy in fruits, greens, entire grains, seeds and nuts — are paramount in reversing these disturbing traits of metabolic illness. An oz of prevention is certainly value a pound of treatment.
This kind of advertising doesn’t belong in our faculties if we care about the way forward for our nation’s well being.
X-tine Goodreau, Los Angeles
