. . . is probably not what Frito Lay had in mind when it made Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
“We have a population who loves to eat the hot, spicy, not-real foods, and they come in [to the emergency room] with these real complaints,” Dr. Martha Rivera of White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles told KABC-TV. “[The kids are being] set up for ulcerations, erosions and… peptic ulcer disease.”
Andrew Medina, 12, told KABC-TV that he eats up to 20 or 30 bags of spicy snacks each month. After he started experiencing stomach pain, he visited a doctor, who told him that the snacks were causing gastritis – a condition associated with bloating, burning and vomiting.
Spicy snack foods sending children to the emergency room, experts claim | Fox News
An apple a day will keep the doctor away, but a bag of these everyday will send you to the emergency room. Maybe you should cut down on the chips, Andrew.
Dr. Martha Rivera, a pediatrician at White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles, said she sees between five and six cases of children with gastritis daily.
Super Spicy Snacks Send Kids to Emergency Room | ABC News
Five or six cases
per day? We should consider feeding our kids
real foods.
Frito Lay, which makes and sells Cheetos, says it is “committed to responsible and ethical practices, which includes not marketing our products to children ages 12 and under.”
Schools Take Aim at Popular Flamin’ Hot Cheetos |ABC News
Maybe they are, maybe they're aren't but then how did we end up with this?
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40 years ago if you can believe it. We even came up with a catchy name for the game, like Commercial Quiz or something like that. (Help me out, brother, if you're reading.) One of us would hum or sing a jingle and while the other guy tried to guess the product as quickly as possible.
Ah, well. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Except we weren't farting hot spicy, non-real foods.
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