What goes up, must come down — much like the praise Michael Phelps has recently received.
Now the Olympic champ is being criticized for choosing to appear on boxes of Frosted Flakes instead of the traditional athlete’s choice of Wheaties.
With a country filled with obese kids, doctors are concerned about the message he’ll be sending to children across America.
“I would not consider Frosted Flakes the food of an Olympian,” said nutritionist Rebecca Solomon of Mount Sinai Medical Center. “I would rather see him promoting Fiber One. I would rather see him promoting oatmeal. I would even rather see him promoting Cheerios.”
“For a guy like Michael Phelps who isn’t worried about obesity because he’s burning thousands of calories as an athlete…eating Corn Flakes and Frosted Flakes every so often is not an issue,” Solomon said.
The Phelps’-emblazoned cereal boxes — with triple the amount of sugar and 1/3rd the fiber of Wheaties — will hit supermarket shelves in mid-September. Will you think g-r-r-reat?!
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He can eat what ever he wants in my opinion. He looks great and is an amazing athelte so I have no problems with it.
I am superised he turned down Wheaties. Frosted Flakes?? That is so bad for childern…disapointing for sure.
Depends on the moo la people.
I guarantee that Wheaties just cant cough up an 8 time gold medal winner.
I like Frosted Flakes better then Wheaties any day of the week.
Jeesh, it’s not like he’s appearing on the cover of a nudie magazine - it’s cereal! I swear, this world is becoming so politically correct it’s crazy. Truly, how many kids actually eat Wheaties? For that matter how many adults even like Wheaties? I don’t think Michael Phelps appearing on Frosted Flakes is going to increase the GNP of sugar. I personally think if you let kids have sugar in moderation they don’t crave it as much as the kids who are denied it completely and then turn around and sneak it. As far as I’m concerned as long as Michael Phelps appears shirtless on the cereal box - all is good. ;0)
REALLY? is this really something to get so upset about… ANYTHING to distract people from REAL problems.
It would be nice if an athlete of his caliber would be a bit more socially considerate in selecting endorsements but then when money is envolved everything else goes out the window. However, in this case it may simply not have occurred to him to check the nutrition facts out in this deal. He seems to be a great guy who wants to do the right thing in everything he does.
I’m with chelsie. What a load of politically correct bullcrap. If parents just fucking manned up and actually took responsibility for raising their own brats, they wouldn’t have to whine about athletes not doing the job for them. If you don’t want your kid to eat Frosted Flakes, then just don’t buy them. Pretty fucking simple. Stop being such a bunch of titty-babies. And fuck that social consideration shit, MikeC. Phelps should be enough of an example to kids with his 8 gold medals–now he has to watch which cereal he endorses?
Rebecca Solomon should just shove it up her ass. Jesus, I can’t stand this whiny “think of THE CHILDREN!!” mentality sometimes…
dude this fool swears Phelps is promoting something like Krispy Creme donuts or something. next story please
i’m pretty sure the doctors just want to misdiagnose more kids with mental diseases so they can make more money with their pharmy complex. they really don’t care about sugar cereals…nor should they if as phelps proves.
Frosted Flakes is a good Breakfast Cereal. If you look at the nutritional informaiton of both Cereals - Wheaties and Frosted Flakes, you’ll see that Glycemic Load difference is 5 points (15 for W and 20 for FF). If you eat everything in moderation, regardless of what you eat, you will not be fat. The problem is not necessarily food, but how lazy most Americans are. Besides, Sugar is not bad for you, it is the High Fructose Corn Syrup that is the culprit in making people fat because our body cannot digest it properly
For a nutritionist, Ms. Salomon is a fucking stupid one for saying FF is a bad food. I grew up on Frosted Flakes and it’s GREEEAAAT!!!
hah good stuff everything in moderation
Stupid. Do the kids really base their food choices on what an athlete decides to promote? Don’t their parents have any say in the matter??
Do 10 year olds buy their own cereal? No. Parents have to buy it for them. If kids are whining in the store for Frosted Flakes and you don’t want them to eat it, then don’t buy it!
Since when did Michael Phelps become responsible for the health of America’s kids?!?!??!?!??!? You have really got to be kidding. My face would be plastered on the box of the highest bidder, period. Besides, when’s the last time you actually ate a bowl of Wheaties?
word hotbitch. word.
besides, phelps eats 12000 cal a day…should kids do that too!??!
nah, they should put down the wiimote and go outside like i used to once and a while.
good for him but that face is not a looker!
Since he does not meet the criteria for their vision of an Olympic athlete, the Left will pursue him for the oppurtunities his mom, hard work, friends and Olympic teammates have allowed him to gain.
Too the Liberals in America he should be on a box of “Madrassa Flakes”, Breakfast of Freedom Fighters the World Over!”
I love frosted flakes…and will buy plenty of them when he is on the box!!!! I just may give them as gifts, I like him sooo much!! He is a true role model…not like those thugs on MTV that think they can sing.
FOOD NAZIS ……pft
Post 17 and 19 tooooooooo funny.
See having ADHD is no excuse to become a VICTIM, Good for him.
Parents are responsible for their children, not Michael Phelps, not some nutritionist looking for 15 minutes of fame and certainly not society. Phelps can endorse whatever cereal he wants. Personally I think Wheaties is nasty and I prefer Captain Crunch myself.
wtf these people are complaining. he got the medals. now shut up!
As a society today we are so fixated on fat and sugar etc. I am a 40 year old female who grew up in the 60’s and 80’s and sugared cereals were “in” then. I ate a lot of them and I am a size 6. I didn’t get fat from them. It’s up to parents to regulate what their children eat so that they can become healthy adults. People are way too critical of what others do. It’s not like he’s endorsing cigarettes or drugs. It’s a cereal. It’s a pretty good one too.
Oops. I meant to say I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s!!!
Frosted Flakes? Like, how many bowls does one need to eat to be of any affect? C’mon, FF? When was the last time you have seen a teen in an automobile wreck with a box of FF in the floorboard? Eat your flakes.