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Coco Pops blamed for Bermuda's obesity

Bermuda’s rise up the world obesity table has been blamed on too many “massive bowls of Coco Pops.” The island is now the fourth fattest country in the world, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Bermuda’s health coordinator Jennifer Attride-Stirling told The Royal Gazette newspaper: “If they have breakfast every day, it might be a massive bowl of Coco Pops. The reason they buy that might be because it’s two for the price of one. How can we move them away from that behaviour? We have to see the motives behind their behaviour - a lot of it is cultural.”

Why pick on Coco Pops? Surely there must be more unhealthy breakfast foods out there somewhere…

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .