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Breakfast is an important meal. It is associated with better overall nutrition and lower body-mass index. The effect of high-sugar cereal on dietary intake at breakfast is unknown, however. Researchers randomized 91 primarily black and Hispanic children (age range, 5–12 years) at three summer camps in New England to receive one of three high-sugar cereals (11–12 g of sugar per serving) or one of three low-sugar cereals (1–4 g of sugar per serving) for one breakfast. All the children were also given 1% low-fat milk, orange juice, and bowls of fruit, and sugar packets were available.
Children in the low-sugar and high-sugar cereal groups consumed similar amounts of calories (384 and 345), but the high-sugar group consumed significantly more re…