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Originally Posted by heep223
These are good points, but I think you underestimate that people are adaptable. Baby boomers haven't gone to war because they haven't had to. You can bet that they would be tough SOBs if the times demanded, like their parents were.
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I really doubt it. Dan Carlin did a stellar podcast on the subject:
Old School Toughness
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Originally Posted by saillias
Yup. Who sits around the kitchen and pours a bowl of cereal in the morning? I get up at 5:30 for work. If I eat breakfast, I go out and buy it
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Presumably you don't have kids. Who has the time (and money) to be buying food every morning?
If I don't get a substantial amount of food in my belly within an hour of waking up, I can't function. And I'm an early riser.
I'm guessing when a lot of people think of cereal, they think of captain crunch, honeycombs, and other sugar junk cereals. You can get whole grain stuff without any added sugar. Add soy milk and a banana and you're looking at a reasonably healthy meal. A heck of a lot more healthy than the breakfast sandwich a lot of people too busy to make breakfast themselves end up eating.
And a lot healthier than skipping breakfast altogether. People who skip breakfast are more likely to be
overweight and suffer from heart disease. Instead of eating early in the day, they eat later. Often the equivalent of another meal in the evening. And the stuff people eat in the evenings sitting in front of a TV tend to be a lot worse for you than cereal.