Sugary cereal is the unsatisfying food I’ll love forever

Like most Americans, it takes me at least five bowls of cereal to feel anything close to satisfied. And then, despite everything I’ve worked for, I’m still forced to eat some rancid-ass banana to satisfy my residual starvation pangs.

What a miserable sham of a breakfast.

Things were different when we were kids. One serving size of Fruit Loops, combined with at least three insulin-jacking packets of sugar, was enough to keep us going until we could move onto our midday Lunchables. As adults, this simply isn’t enough. Part of that is our changing biochemistry, and part of it is by design. 

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