Cereal
I used to eat a lot of cereal – pretty much every week day from grade school to college. If you would have asked me if I thought I ate a healthy breakfast then, what do you think I would have said? Of course I’m eating a healthy breakfast – its cereal! But I was wrong – the truth is cereal is marginally healthy and it actually does a lot more harm than good – especially if your overweight. Cereal pros: its fortified with vitamins and minerals and its at least something (which is usually better than nothing which a lot of people have for breakfast.) Cereal cons: high added sugar (raises insulin levels which helps store fat), high total carbohydrates (which again raises insulin levels), little fiber (unless you actually eat those crappy high fiber cereals) – little fiber contributes to higher blood sugar, and the last con is milk (which raises insulin dramatically, but is not technically a part of cereal, but what do you take your cereal with – water?) What alternatives do you have to cereal? Eggs and fruit. With this combination, you can’t lose: the fat and protein help to moderate your blood sugar levels, you wont’ get too many carbs with the fruit, you get vitamins and minerals from the fruit, you get fiber and phytonutrients, and you will burn more fat with this type of meal.
Von
