breakfast cereal | Health Topics | NutritionFacts.org

22 videos

Topic summary contributed by volunteer(s): Linda

Breakfast Cereals and Sugar

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.)

Breakfast Cereals and Fiber

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 and Antioxidants

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.

Breakfast Cereals and Vitamin B12

Fortified breakfast cereal can provide vitamin B12, a nutrient that is not naturally available in plant foods.

Image Credit: Zoli / Pixabay. This image has been modified.

All Videos for Breakfast Cereal

Dr. Greger’s Daily Dozen Checklist

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.

Dr. Greger’s Daily Dozen Checklist

Dr. Greger’s Daily Dozen Checklist

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.

Is Nutritional Yeast Healthy for Everyone?

Is Nutritional Yeast Healthy for Everyone?

Those with certain autoimmune diseases such as Crohn’s disease should probably not eat nutritional yeast.

How Much Arsenic in Rice is Too Much?

How Much Arsenic in Rice is Too Much?

Strategies to reduce arsenic exposure from rice.

Arsenic in Rice Milk, Rice Krispies, and Brown Rice Syrup

Arsenic in Rice Milk, Rice Krispies, & Brown Rice Syrup

I recommend people switch away from using rice milk.

Arsenic in Infant Rice Cereal

Arsenic in Infant Rice Cereal

Pediatric nutrition authorities have recommended that when it comes to rice and rice-based products, arsenic intake should be as low as possible.

Reductionism and the Deficiency Mentality

Reductionism & the Deficiency Mentality

How the food, drug, and supplement industries have taken advantage of the field of nutrition’s reductionist mindset

Do Raisins Cause Cavities?

Do Raisins Cause Cavities?

Dried fruit has long been thought to contribute to tooth decay, but what does the science say?

The Five to One Fiber Rule

A guideline is suggested for how to read food labels for grain products such as bread and breakfast cereals.

Big Food Using the Tobacco Industry Playbook

Big Food Using the Tobacco Industry Playbook

The processed food industries now use tactics similar to those used by cigarette companies to undermine public health interventions.

Treating Dry Eye Disease with Diet: Just Add Water?

Treating Dry Eye Disease with Diet: Just Add Water?

Causes of dry eye disease include LASIK laser eye surgery, but there are dietary approaches to prevention and treatment.

Food as Medicine

Food as Medicine: Preventing & Treating the Most Dreaded Diseases with Diet

Dr. Greger has scoured the world’s scholarly literature on clinical nutrition and developed this new presentation based on the latest in cutting edge research exploring the role diet may play in preventing, arresting, and even reversing some of our most feared causes of death and disability.

Pin It on Pinterest