Breakfast Skippers Listen Up!
The good news is there are some great-tasting whole grain cereals in the supermarket aisle and they do offer people who might normally be skipping breakfast a "better than nothing" breakfast choice. A recent literature review found that breakfast skipping is rampant in the U.S. and in Europe.
The irony is that some people skip breakfast in an effort to lose weight and the opposite appears to be true. Twelve out of 16 studies recently reviewed suggested that breakfast skipping was actually associated with an increase in body mass index.
What could be easier than making yourself a bowl of cereal in the morning? If you are late and trying to get out the door, take one measly minute to pour some cereal in a bag. You can enjoy it by the handful without milk on your way or enjoy it once you get to work with some milk from the cafeteria or snack bar.
When choosing your breakfast cereal look for:
~~Elaine
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The irony is that some people skip breakfast in an effort to lose weight and the opposite appears to be true. Twelve out of 16 studies recently reviewed suggested that breakfast skipping was actually associated with an increase in body mass index.
What could be easier than making yourself a bowl of cereal in the morning? If you are late and trying to get out the door, take one measly minute to pour some cereal in a bag. You can enjoy it by the handful without milk on your way or enjoy it once you get to work with some milk from the cafeteria or snack bar.
When choosing your breakfast cereal look for:
- cereals made from whole grains (a whole grain should be the first ingredient in the ingredient list)
- it would be great if your cereal serving contributed 5 grams of fiber or more to your daily fiber total
- cereals with enough sugar that it tastes appealing but not too much (look for the % calories from sugar to be 25% calories from sugar or less - this might be higher if the cereal you choose contains dried fruit, which counts toward the total sugar grams)
~~Elaine
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19 Comments:
Post Shredded Wheat Squares are loaded with fiber, has no salt, no fat, and is very low in calories. It is also very filling. I use rice milk vs. cows milk. Maybe some fruit. Quick, easy, filling, and nutritious.
Barbara's Cinnamon Puffins are delicious. They have 6 g fiber per 2/3 cup serving and only 6 g sugar. They also contain no wheat. One serving keeps me full all morning!
I'm a huge fan of Kashi GOLEAN cereal. Don't let the diet-y name deceive; it's wonderful whether you want to lose weight or not. It's crunchy and filling and mildly sweet (5g sugar), and each 1-cup serving has 140 Calories, 1g fat, 10g fiber and 13g protein. It makes it super-easy to get the 25-30g fiber a day that I aim for.
Fiber One is OK taste-wise, and has a whopping 14g fiber per 1/2 cup serving... but only if your stomach can handle it.
I have found that if I eat cereal for breakfast, I get hungrier faster than If I eat no breakfast at all. The result is I eat more at lunch time.
I have found that if I eat cereal for breakfast, I'm get hungrier faster than If I eat no breakfast at all.
I get hungrier at lunch, too, when I eat cereal. I honestly think it could be the milk. If I make oatmeal with water instead, the hunger doesn't return as quickly or as strongly. BTW, I hear people talk about the benefits of shredded wheat all the time and it is just gross! I might as well eat a cardboard box.
General Millls Fiber One has 14 grams of fiber in 1/2 cup! To add protein I eat it with Kashi GO LEAN.
Hellooooo! Hasn't anyone heard of Uncle Sam's Cereal. Check out the ingredients. Best of everything. Just add a little Splenda to it and some fresh fruit.
Uncle Sam is one of THE BEST ever! Not only is it filling (lasts all morning for me) it has Omega 3 and flax in it. I love it with blueberries. And - Wheetabix - love the flakes and the buscuits, lots of fiber and fills me up for most of the day as well. I am a reformed non-breakfast eater. Used to think that if I didn't eat in the morning it'd be easier to eat less all day - which was true when I was younger, but I am in my forties now and find that eating something in the morning even if it is two spoonfuls of peanut butter - gets me going and believe it or not I am able to eat LESS at night.
Also - here's a tip for Uncle Sam cereal during the cooler months - I usually put my milk in and then microwave it to get it warm - add some walnuts and splenda - delish!
brown eggs are amazing for breakfast, or any egg, most are extremely low cal. and have energy for protien.
add a small piece of wheat bread for fiber and grab coffee, its very quick and tasty.
You people get hungrier faster when you eat breakfast because its your first meal of the day and it gets your metabolism going...making your body ready for the next meal...whereas if you don't eat anything until lunch thats your first meal of the day and your metabolism is just now starting
For 5 months now, my daily breakfast has been cereal. I alternate daily. My variety includes: Uncle Sam(I add Stevia+ fiber to this), Barbara's Shredded Spoonfuls, Kashi, Grape Nuts( I + add stevia + fiber to this), an organic High Fiber Raisan Bran with flax from a health food store-NO sugar!( "Raisan Bran" from Post etc....they are AWFUL for you!), and Shredded Wheat from Trader Joes. I absolutely love all of these cereals and highly recommend them. Some have more fiber and protein than others, but all cut the mustard for me. They all leave me satisfied and most of all are extremley healthy to my physical, mental and spiritual health.
Are you a cow or a pig? Grains are what fatten up our favorite animals before they're slaughtered. Are you sure you want to be fattened up as well? Grains, especially flour, are one of the most insidious causes of malnutrition.
When eskimos began eating "modern" foods, they ended up getting cavities, getting sicker (a sharp rise in the incidence of tuberculosis), their children were born with crowded teeth and narrower nostrils (sound familiar, why else do we have braces and "breath right strips")
Just read Dr Weston Price's Book "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration."
Since we are talking about cereal, many cereals are adding hormones, I mean soy, to boost their health claims. Avoid all soy products, especially during pregnancy and don't dare feed your babies soy-based formula.
The scientists, based at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, tested the effects of genistein – the key chemical found in soya beans – on pregnant rats. Alarmingly, they found that their male offspring developed abnormal reproductive organs and experienced sexual dysfunction as adults.
100 g soy protein = equivalant amount of estrogen in the contraceptive pill:
http://www.soyonlineservice.co.nz/articles/Swiss%20Bureau.htm
Cheetas in zoos fed soy-containing food loose fertility and have liver problems (someone petition those VEGANS at PeTA to end this CRUELTY of denying MEAT to these poor CARNIVORES):
http://www.soyonlineservice.co.nz/articles/Cheetahs.htm
GM soy is much worse than regular soy, stunting growth and causing permanent infertility:
Female rats given a supplement of GM Roundup Ready soya beginning two weeks before mating and continuing afterwards through pregnancy and lactation produced litters in which more than a third of the pups were severely stunted, and over half of the pups died within three weeks after birth. Stunting was five to six times, and mortality six to eight times those of control litters produced by females on normal rat pellets only, or rat pellets supplemented with non-GM soya. These results were confirmed in further experiments. In addition, the surviving pups from the GM soya-fed females were completely sterile when mated with one another whether they continued to be fed GM soya or not.
http://www.westonaprice.org/farming/gm-free-sustainable.html
Cereal doesn't fill me up. I end up eating 3-4 bowls and I still feel hungry! I think cereal, like sugar, should be called "empty calories", cause that's how I feel after eating them. Also, why do you think most breads and cereals contain "enriched flour"? Because they are so devoid of nutrients, they had to do something to avoid people from developing signs of malnutrition and vitamin deficiencies. So they add just enough vitamins to keep you from showing signs of a deficiency. Wake up people!
i just leave milk at work, take the cereal in a tupperware container. so easy!
I take a handful or two of oatmeal put it in a cup, add 1/2 cup of skim milk, and cranberries or raisins(really any fruit is good). I dont microwave it. Just eat it like it says above. Its quick, easy, and inexpensive. Dont forget a spoon.
Most grains found in cereal are pure crap. Millet and Quinoa are much better options. Ideally though, you shouldn't eat grain every day for 2 reasons: 1) is ferments in the digestive track into alcohol and dries your cells out (where do you think whisky comes from!?!) and 2) most grains, especially wheat and corn, are high in calories, gluten and fungus with little nutritional value(some would say none). The enrichment process is like adding a vitamin to a defincient diet ... sure it can make up for one bad day of fast food, but over the course of your life time, if you dont' eat some green veggies you are going to find yourself in sorry shape by your 40's ... if you make it that long.
The best breakfast most of you could ever have is this shake!
1 cup frozen organic blueberries
2 TBS. ground organic flax seeds
1/2 cup raw organic full-fat cow's milk (if you can't get that, regular full-fat organic cows milk froma dairy with grass-fed cows, not grain fed, bc that stuff IS poison)
Blend and drink in the amazing deliciousness of healthy eating :-) You can add a banana if you are still training your taste buds to taste flavors other than sweet and salty.
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