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Breakfast Cereals: Healthy Choices By Gabe Mirkin, M.D
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| Tuesday, January 13, 2009 |
The healthiest breakfast cereal is whole grain. If you try to lose weight, control cholesterol or diabetes, or just need a lot of energy, your best bet is hot cooked cereal of whole grains such as oatmeal. You can also cook barley, brown rice or wheat berries, and serve them as oatmeal - season them with cinnamon or raisins.
If you prefer cold cereal, you need to check the list of ingredients carefully. FIRST material that should be a whole grain. Then scan through the entire list and if you see the words "partially hydrogenated," put the box back in the rack. You should avoid foods with partially hydrogenated oil (or "trans Fats"), and they appear in the alarming number of cereal brands (see list below.)
Once eliminated all made with fine grains or partially hydrogenated oils, added sugars check (you will be little or no) and fiber (many you want.)
Fiber content listed on the nutrition label can be confusing because based on serving size, and very light cereals (such as puffed wheat) show little fiber per serving, but the amount that can be received when you adjust the weight. Cereals made from bran (which is removed from the outside covering the whole grains) will be higher fiber content than cereals made from whole grains (which have the germ and the starchy grains and fiber), but they can be difficult to digest.
For a list of breakfast cereals by brand see http://www.drmirkin.com/nutrition/N180.htm
Dr. Gabe Mirkin has been radio talk show host for 25 years and physician practice for over 40 years, he is board certified in four special, including sports medicine. Read or listen to hundreds of people in the fitness and health reports http://www.DrMirkin.com
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