Mom now has another reason to tell kids to eat their cereal.  New research shows cereal for breakfast may help fight the U.S. obseity epidemic in which one child in three is overweight.  A study in the December issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association found that children who on most days ate ready to eat cereal were 75 percent less likely to be overweight.  Study Co-Author Dr. Harvey Anderson of the University of Toronto says kids who eat cereal about four times a week consume less fat and cholesterol ... and take in more vitamins:

"The majority of children who frequently consumed ready to eat cereal had a normal, healthy body weight while nearly half of the children who ate little or no cereal were overweight.  For an average 10-year old boy, that's about a 12-pound difference."

The study tracked all types of cereal, including Kix, Whole Grain Cheerios, Trix and Lucky Charms.

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