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While breakfast cereals are convenient, it’s important to read their labels. Many of them contain added sugar, even the ones we think are healthier options. This is one reason that oatmeal is a better choice. (Oatmeal also may help with weight loss, cholesterol reduction, and an improvement in liver function.)
Many breakfast cereals contain fiber, but most of them violate the “five-to-one fiber rule”: divide the number of carbohydrate grams by the number of dietary fiber grams (a result of 5 or less indicates a healthy balance of ingredients).
Breakfast cereals are very low in antioxidants, especially when compared to breakfast alternatives like fruit smoothies. Adding fruit to cereals is a good idea: a half-cup of blueberries eaten with breakfast cereal may help blunt the cereal’s glycemic effects.
Fortified breakfast cereal can provide vitamin B12, a nutrient that is not naturally available in plant foods.
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Implausible explanations for the obesity epidemic, such as sedentary lifestyles or lack of self-discipline, serve the needs of the manufacturers and marketers more than the public’s health and the interest in truth.
Plastering front-of-package nutrient claims on cereal boxes is an attempt to distract from the incongruity of feeding our children multicolored marshmallows for breakfast.
Public health authorities continue to drop the upper tolerable limit of daily added sugar intake.
The industry’s response to the charge that breakfast cereals are too sugary.
If sugar consumption is considered the one and only cause of cavities, how much is too much?
The amazing story about what lobbying millions can do to shut down efforts to protect children.
The remarkable impact of the structure of food beyond nutritional content or composition.
One of the worst breakfast cereals will surprise you.
In my book How Not to Die, I center my recommendations around a Daily Dozen checklist of everything I try to fit into my daily routine.
In my book How Not to Die, I center my recommendations around a Daily Dozen checklist of all the things I try to fit into my daily routine.
Those with certain autoimmune diseases such as Crohn’s disease should probably not eat nutritional yeast.
What are some strategies to reduce arsenic exposure from rice?
