To the Editor:

Re “Adult-Only Froot Loops” (editorial, June 16):

Does parental control over what children eat matter? Regardless of advertising, children rarely go to the market to buy sugared snacks. If parents exercised more control over what their children eat, by instruction and involvement in their diet, that would reduce childhood obesity significantly.

Companies advertise to increase sales. To blame them for the lax discipline that children have because of inattentive parents is to place the blame on the wrong party.

Whatever happened to parental involvement when it comes to teaching children how to eat sensibly?

Jack E. Rubin, M.D.
Encino, Calif., June 16, 2007

Note from KBJ: How can parents teach their children to eat sensibly when they themselves are filling their faces with Twinkies? Children eat the way their parents eat. They don’t listen to what their parents say.