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so let’s talk about cereal as a kid I consumed probably more cereal than

anyone that I knew I would go to the grocery store with my mother and go

there just to pick out my own cereal to get the little prizes in the cereal and

I had zero awareness what was in that cereal but that continued all the way

until college in fact I was consuming cereal all through college had no

awareness that it wasn’t a really good thing to do now the worst time to feed

someone cereal is when they’re an infant infant rice cereal which is very popular

has inorganic arsenic in it okay now in the soils where they grow grains and

plants there’s always going to be some arsenic in very very small amounts and

it’s called organic arsenic and our bodies can deal with it very easily so

it’s not really a problem but inorganic arsenic is different that usually comes

from some type of pollution from some waterway that’s fed into where that rice

is growing in other plants so this is not healthy for an infant in fact I

found this very interesting study I’m going to put down below that talks about

the exposure to cereal to infants increasing the risk of autoimmune

diseases and I’m talking about type 1 diabetes get a problem when you feed

this cereal to a babies they don’t have the enzymes yet to digest that cereal

I’m talking about amylase that’s developed months later so you’re giving

this food that they can’t digest with this heavy metal not to mention the

tremendous amount of sugar rice cereal is screaming high on the glycemic index

it’s way up there it’s gonna turn into sugar and that alone can set your child

up for all sorts of blood sugar issues down the road of course the other thing

that you know about already is cereal has massive amounts of added sugar I

mean in some of the cereals one cup is equivalent to the sugar of on twinkie

so when you look on the boxes of the cereal it may say it’s heart healthy

because it has whole grains the problem is that the whole grains have feit taped

ok phytate is a chemical in grains that will block the absorption of zinc in

other minerals and zinc is vital in the growth of that child now we have the

gluten in the wheat products and many kids have an allergy to gluten tears up

their colon they start developing inflammatory conditions early on that

then lead to allergies and a lot of gut problems down the road when you buy

children cereals they have about 40% more sugar than adult cereals I’m not

saying that adult cereals are much better

most cereals have at the very minimum at least 2 plus teaspoons of sugar per

serving and that’s added on top of the grains which also turn into sugar and

then we have the problem of the GMOs okay so these grains whether it’s wheat

soy corn other grains even beet sugars have been exposed to glyphosate and this

is the herbicide in the GMOs creating problems with their immune system then

we have the fortification of that cereal you’ll see that it’s fortified like

fortification is like a really good thing right well they give synthetic

vitamin a they have zinc niacin and iron but these vitamins and minerals are not

the type of vitamins and minerals that you would see in in plants and they have

a different effect on the body to the point where they can accumulate and

cause more of a problem what should your child consume I put some links right

here to cover that topic thanks for watching