I read an article many years ago written by a Doctor who maintained that the human body doesn't really process milk properly after the age of 6 or so - that it is totally unnecessary to consume and that there are a lot of other ways to get your daily calcium requirements. Add to that the fact that breakfast cereals (tasty as they may be) are one of the worst things you can consume and you don't have to think too hard to figure out why such a high percentage of our population is unhealthy.

I've tried telling my parents about this but they don't seem to want to listen. They both take this wonder pill that is supposed to make the immune system invincible like. It cracks me up when they get sick and I'm thinking, "Gee, if there was only a pill that you could take to prevent you from ever getting sick, oh right, your taking it. The placebo effect is strong with these two." They believe everything that is on television. I've tried, but they don't want to listen.

I just generally avoid fluff articles and had a hard time staying focused on the given one. If I want a better chance of useful information, I do a scholarly Google.

As a diabetic I know proteins good, carbohydrates bad. That's the easy part. Having developed diabetes late in life, I spent my life eating cereal, like most people in America. Still do on occasion. Changing a diet, that's the hard part.

One more thing to be aware of is, if large numbers of people made the recommended changes, purchased the products endorsed, and convinced more to do likewise, who would profit?

One of my favourite memes, must have been all that time spent working towards my BSc.

JUst the USA and New Zealand are allowed to have pharma commercials on television. We are the nation that wants whiter teeth and spend a fortune of them, we are a nation that wants to prevent death and take any risk to maintain vanity. The adds run because we in general buy them . The Europeans laugh at how we all walk around with brilliant white teeth and think it looks natural. The Europeans believe the aging of teeth is fine and not a big issue. We in the USA support this type of nonsense. So it anyone reading this who spent a lot of money whitening your teeth, you bought into the vanity as you were supposed to do.

I doubt everything, Descartes taught me that...

So sad. My ex was a type one diabetic and milk and cereal was always one of the very worst things in terms of dramatic spikes in blood sugar. I wonder how many people did themselves harm.

Even legit work by well meaning scientists seems to get twisted in the way it is communicated and understood. People love the flashy title that says whatever berry of the week fights cancer, so those articles get a ton of clicks and the corn syrup smoothie industry gets rich making berry smoothies. Some new research is really fascinating and encouraging. Then the public gets a hold of it and people want encourage forgoing chemo by smoking weed because it fits their agenda. We need to take the time to read the information and see what the research actually says instead of just what advertisers share in order to sell products or opinions.

It's safe to assume that an industry investigating itself is going to lie. It's been on the news for decades that humans do NOT need to drink milk, that it actually leaches calcium from our bones.

12 Reasons to Stop Drinking Cow’s Milk [peta.org]

We need to take every new health report with a great deal of scepticism and caution. As you point out and is outlined in the linked article, if the study has been funded by an interest group or manufacturer, we have to be extremely cautious about its conclusions, if not downright dismissive.

Protein is not The problem. Sugar is
The article seems kind of measleading