Does eating Nestle Fitness Cereal for weight loss require other nutrition?

Question

There is a cereal claiming to help me lose weight if I eat it.

This blog post is all about this production. A short summary of it:

Nestle Fitness Cereal Health Claims: - Contains Fiber

• Less than 1.5% Saturated Fat

• Source of Vitamins

• Contains Whole Grain

• Delicious

Each Nestle Fitness Box contains 375g of [supposedly] whole-grain goodness. Here’s the breakdown of those 375g:

Calories: 1,395

• Carbohydrates: 294 grams

• Sugars: 64.5 grams (22% sugar from total carbohydrate amount)

• Fiber: 22.125 grams (0.075% from total carbohydrate amount)

• Fat: 5.25 grams

• Protein: 31.5 grams

Ingredients: Whole Grain Wheat, Rice, Sugar, Partially Inverted Brown Sugar, Sugar Syrup, Barley Malt Extract, Salt, Glucose Syrup, Vitamins & Minerals.

Does the body require any other nutritional needs (such as from fruit) if someone is eating this cereal?

Answer 1

Weight loss is still poorly understood.

What's certain is that if you starve yourself, you will lose weight, and if you massively overeat for a sustained period of time, you will gain weight. Everything in between is less predictable. Our body isn't stupid, if it detects an imbalance it will correct it.

Eating only this cereal might make you thin, or it might make you fat. It might also make you deficient in whatever this cereal doesn't provide.

One of the ideas gaining popularity is that human beings aren't broken by default, and that something about our diet causes our body to get overweight (and eventually sick). Exactly what causes it is unknown, but large doses of wheat, fructose and Omega-6 poly-unsaturated fats as well as highly processed foods have been fingered as the culprits. Paleo dieters avoid these things (and call them Neolithic Agents of Disease :-) ) and the body returns to a more natural equilibrium.

Personally, I first lost weight and then gained muscle and energy avoiding these NADs, without counting calories so I'm convinced that my regular diet was not healthy. I ate mostly a standard american diet with an extra helping of sweets.

This cereal doesn't look too highly processed, but personally I wouldn't eat it because of the wheat content and because there are so many other foods that are much yummier.

Answer 2

Eating anything will help you lose weight if you don't eat much of it.

If you were to eat nothing but that cereal, given the most conservative estimate of 0.5 grams of protein per pound of body weight per day required to maintain muscle - a 150lb human would require 75 grams of protein. To get that from the cereal you would need to eat 892 grams of the cereal - almost 2 1/2 packets.

This would also give you 700 grams of carbohydrates, 153 grams of sugar and 3321 calories.

This is what is required for a sedentary person - an active person would need more protein so would have to eat more.

You would get fat.