Evening Ready-to-Eat Cereal Consumption Contributes to Weight Management
Sandia M. Waller, MS, RD,
Jillon S. Vander Wal, PhD,
David M. Klurfeld, PhD, FACN,
Michael I. McBurney, PhD, FACN,
Susan Cho, PhD,
Smita Bijlani, MD and
Nikhil V. Dhurandhar, PhD, FACN
Department of Nutrition & Food Science (S.M.W., D.M.K., N.V.D.)
Center for Health Research (J.S.V.W.)
Wayne State University, Detroit, Kellogg Company (M.I.M., S.C.)
Battle Creek, Rochester Center for Obesity Research (S.B., N.V.D.), Rochester Hills, Michigan

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Fig. 1. Association between compliance and weight loss. Weight change in 4 weeks vs. the number of days of post-dinner cereal consumption in the CR group. Change in weight correlated (r = 0.36, p = 0.067) with the number of days of cereal consumption (n = 29).
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Fig. 2. Post-dinner caloric consumption for the CR and NC groups. Consumption of evening calories in the compliant CR (n = 14) and the NC groups (n = 23).
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