[HighlandSpring]

Fine, will elaborate:

> Regular consumption of breakfast cereals is associated with diets that are lower in fat

why is this necessarily a good thing?

> Regular consumption of breakfast cereals is associated with diets that are higher in vitamins and minerals for adults, adolescents, and children

is the subset of vitamins and minerals and the corresponding RDAs that they look at responsible for driving meaningful outcomes or do they just pick whatever's convenient?

> Regular consumption of breakfast cereals is associated with a greater likelihood of meeting recommended nutrient intakes

again, recommended nutrient intakes is very convenient considering they're derived from how nourished a population is, i.e: as a nourishment goes down so do the recommended levels.

> Consumption of breakfast cereals is associated with higher daily milk intake

Only thing so far that might actually be causal to health. Probably not though because the frankenmilk we consume today is not the raw milk we were consuming a century ago.

> Consumption of presweetened breakfast cereals does not increase the total daily energy intake in children’s diets

calories in/ calories out is not as useful as made out to be, there's quite little wrong with consuming a lot of calories if those calories are well utilised

> Consumption of breakfast cereals does not increase the total daily sodium intake

Sodium is an essential electrolyte/signaling ion. Too much is bad in the presence of insulin insensitivity. Too little is really bad if the individual is metabolcially sound for the most part.

> Consumption of presweetened breakfast cereals does not increase total daily sugar intake of children and adolescents

second one so far that might actually be a really good proxy

tl;dr: no idea how many of these are useful proxies for things that actually matter