soul. making you cocoa for cocoa puffs. reporter: a cornell university study found that adult cereals are placed on higher shelves. kid seriar cereals from lower os as if from down there the characters are trying to establish eye contact at kids. the eyes are deflected at a downward angle about 9.6 degrees. what are you looking at your silly rabbit? the study found that characters on adult creer yalts look straight ahead meeting adult gazes. don t look at me that way. you re all cereal offenders, especially you, tony. they re great! great. you i ll never be able to walk down a cereal aisle again without feeling eyes on me. the study s author say it s known that direct eye contact between humans encourages trust. but would that hold true for direct eye contact with cereal box characters? 63 participants, really we re not making this up, were shown the rabbit from trix.
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to just let it rip and say the most racist bigoted backwards kind of things about this lovely couple. and i agree with general mills, there are a lot of couples that look that way. general mills is in the business of selling cherrios. do you think they did that to get that extra bit of publicity? it s possible. a lot of people are talking about. but in the end, if you re a little kid and you love cherrios, you know how many times you see kids having tell ter tantrums in the cereal aisle. i can t imagine a family saying we re not buying them because they have a white mother and black father. i think in the end it will keep selling. thank you so much. great to talk to you. starting point back in a moment. bly anyone else. we ve had this farm for 30 years. we raise black and red angus cattle. we also produce natural gas. that s how we make our living and that s how we can pass the land and water back to future generations.
addictive like reaction to it. i believe it s coming and it will be proven. what, if anything, can be done? i do the grocery shopping. you go aisle by aisle. it s hard to make a healthy meal. especially in the cereal aisle and with younger children, all of the count chocula is on the lower shelves and kids grab and 90% sugar. that is the thing. that s why we wrote this because our food environment, i believe, has led to these addictive problems with people with eating disorders like me, as well as some people who are morbidly obese or struggle with obesity or are overweight. and the science now is showing that the obesity crisis in america is not because people are undisciplined or because people are slobs or because they don t know how to control themselves like we do. no. that s not it all. you look around and you look at the problem that we have and we have to stop judging people who are struggling with their
it s 11:00 on the east coast, 8:00 out west. a doctor, father, and authority on near death experiences in children stands accused of water boarding his own daughter. that story is it ahead. also, a hot dry summer translates to pain in farmer s fields and supermarkets. check out supermarket lanes all over the world. and curiosity is out of this world, way out of this world, but it is keeping in touch via tweets. much of that coming up. first, a very tough story. accusations of water boarding not against a prisoner of war but against an 11-year-old american girl. the man arrested, the rl s father who is a pediatrician in delaware. this is a mug shot we re showing you here of dr. melvin morris. his daughter accuses him of holding her face under a running faucet and told police he called it water boarding. dr. morris has written several books including two that deal with near death experiences in children. he is also been interviewed on various national talk shows including opr