To the editor: As a registered nurse who works in an emergency room and much too usually cares for sufferers with preventable illnesses, I used to be alarmed to see the featured photo in the print California section displaying elementary college kids studying a ebook sponsored by a well known processed breakfast cereal.
Publicity to the 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 developments of metabolic illness. An oz. of prevention is certainly price a pound of treatment.
The sort of advertising and marketing doesn’t belong in our faculties if we care about the way forward for our nation’s well being.
X-tine Goodreau, Los Angeles
