Dr. Gary Null
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 A study of breakfast-eating habits showed that breakfast eaters—subjects who normally eat breakfast—lost more weight when placed on a diet that excluded breakfast, while breakfast skippers— those who normally skipped the meal—lost more weight when placed on a diet that included breakfast.
D. G. Schlundt et at, "The Role of breakfast in the Treatment of Obesity: A Randomized Clinical Trial," American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 55, no. 3 (March 1992): 645-51.
A dietary fiber supplement was shown to be an effective weight-loss aid. |
KC Craichy
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 How to Get Started
CHANGE YOUR breakfast, CHANGE YOUR LIFE
Breakfast is the meal where most people make the biggest nutritional mistakes, ranging from not eating anything to eating sugars, grains, pasteurized dairy products, pork products, or fried foods. Don't let the breakfast food paradigm force you into making poor breakfast choices. It is nutritionally proper to eat lunch and dinner foods for breakfast (i.e., leftover chicken or steak and salad from dinner). The goal is to get protein, healthy fats, fiber, and low glycemic carbs at every meal. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Basically, all you're getting when you eat white bread, white flour or breakfast cereals made with white flour is empty calories -- nothing but the carbohydrate, or technically the endosperm of the grain.
You also get some things you don't want in white flour. Sometimes you get pesticide, solvents or other contaminants. I don't want to be eating anything that says "bleached." If you look at the ingredients label on a lot of these boxes, it says, "enriched bleached flour." Do I want something bleached in my body? Gee, I don't think so. What's this "enriched" anyway? |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Eat breakfast every day, no matter what. Other than at dinner, our second favorite time to overeat is at lunch. If you do not eat a good breakfast, I guarantee you will eat more than you should at lunch, which will make you sluggish, tired and unproductive for the rest of the day. If you are like me, you have no interest in breakfast and would prefer to drink a cup of coffee to get the day started. I force myself to eat something that will give me good, clean energy for my body and brain. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| By the way, if you combine it with some healthy oils and some quality proteins at the time of breakfast, then you will further slow the release of sugar into your bloodstream. So you will absorb your meal slowly and steadily.
This is the way to start your day right. This is the way to power your brain so you have ongoing mental function, creativity and mental acuity. Power your brain with low glycemic index foods.
I don't mean they're zero carb foods. I think you need carbs. |
| To think it all started out with breakfast. That's right, that box of cereal with refined white flour, or what they call "enriched, bleached white flour." It's all in the diet folks.
So now, let's take a look at a healthy person, someone making wise food choices, and starting off their morning right. What do they eat? Well, they're going to eat whole grains; slow-burning complex carbohydrates. Maybe it's this Ezekiel cereal, or maybe it's the whole grain Total cereal. |
| For a lot of people, breakfast is nothing but refined carbohydrates. Think about it: Toasted white bread is nothing but refined carbs. If you put some jelly on it, again, it’s nothing but sugar with a little bit of fruit flavor. Then they get some hydrogenated oils in the margarine that's put on toast. You might eat some pancakes and there's some more white flour for you, just in case you didn't get enough from the toast. What do you put on top of the pancakes? Syrup, of course, which is liquid refined carbs that go into your bloodstream even faster. |
| It is definitely better for you than any of the breakfast cereals made with refined grains. Now, certainly there are some things that can be improved in the health of General Mills’ cereals - for example, they still use refined sugars. However, this is a huge step in the right direction, and I think General Mills deserves a lot of credit for having the courage to stand up and take this step. Moving to whole grains is a very big deal.
You'll notice the other cereal companies haven’t been doing it. You don't see Post moving everything to whole grains, and you don't see Kellogg's doing it. |
| General Mills is probably never going to be a health food company, but at least they can play a positive role in avoiding the most egregious nutritional mistakes (like making breakfast cereals with white flour and refined white sugar). What would the next huge improvement be for General Mills? How about making zero-sugar cereals with stevia as the only sweetener? I'd be floored, and I'd rave endlessly about General Mills if they went straight to natural herbal sweeteners. |
Mike Adams
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 If you eat a breakfast of pancakes made with white flour, you're eating a very high-glycemic-index breakfast. If you combine it with syrup, which is nothing but liquid sugar, you make it even worse. You might eat this breakfast and within 30 minutes, you'll have a blood sugar high because of all of the carbohydrates that are being rapidly converted into sugar in your blood stream.
A few hours later—often sometime before noon—your blood sugar crashes, and when it does, you tend to feel a bit tired—maybe even irritable—and definitely hungry. |
KC Craichy
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| Don't let the breakfast food paradigm force you into making poor breakfast choices. It is nutritionally proper to eat lunch and dinner foods for breakfast (i.e., leftover chicken or steak and salad from dinner). The goal is to get protein, healthy fats, fiber, and low glycemic carbs at every meal. Organic eggs with steamed or sauteed vegetables are an excellent choice.
DRINK LOTS OF FRESH, PURIFIED SPRING WATER
You should drink 8 to 12 glasses per day, which can be as much as 1 quart per 50 pounds of body weight per day. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 We believe you should also follow the old saying: 'Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dine like a pauper'. Use the following plan as a guide to keep you feeling vital and alive. Bon appetit!
BREAKFAST Citrus fruit or fruit juice, wholegrain cereal and/or boiled,
Remember to restrict butter, margarine, cream, fat, salt and all sugars, including brown and raw sugar, in your diet. Use glucose syrup or honey if necessary.
A final point: although we would not generally recommend caffeine as a part of a healthy diet, it may have a place in an asthmatic's life! |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 We want you to enjoy your breakfast, lunch, and snacks—but we also want you to get in the habit of automating them, so that you eat healthfully without having to labor over choices. What's automation? It means finding three or so breakfasts, lunches, and snacks (and dinners if you choose) that you like and eating one of them every day. When you can automate your eating behavior with good choices, you'll have mastered one of the crucial steps to fueling your body with ingredients that help you live strong and long. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| If you do not eat a good breakfast, I guarantee you will eat more than you should at lunch, which will make you sluggish, tired and unproductive for the rest of the day. If you are like me, you have no interest in breakfast and would prefer to drink a cup of coffee to get the day started. I force myself to eat something that will give me good, clean energy for my body and brain. One of my staples is a half cup of oatmeal with one tablespoon of raw sugar, cinnamon and a little milk to make it creamy instead of clumpy. It only has about 200 calories, 30 grams of carbs and 3 grams of fat. |
Mike Adams
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| If you eat a breakfast of pancakes made with white flour, you're eating a very high-glycemic-index breakfast. If you combine it with syrup, which is nothing but liquid sugar, you make it even worse. You might eat this breakfast and within 30 minutes, you'll have a blood sugar high because of all of the carbohydrates that are being rapidly converted into sugar in your blood stream.
A few hours later—often sometime before noon—your blood sugar crashes, and when it does, you tend to feel a bit tired—maybe even irritable—and definitely hungry. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 Breakfast Grains
Millet breakfast Mix
This is an alkaline grain.
% cup cooked millet (see chart)
2 tablespoons chopped, walnuts, almonds, or pecans Nut mylkto cover
Flavor with your favorite spices, such as: cinnamon, cardamom, vanilla, coconut flakes, and coconut oil. Add a pinch of salt, and sweeten with licorice root powder or stevia. Serves 1.
Oatmeal
1 cup rolled oats 1 cup water
1 tablespoon coconut oil dash salt
Boil water in saucepan, add salt. Add oatmeal and oil. Stir on medium heat for 5 minutes or according to directions on box. Serves 1. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 Although the sample daily menus include only one afternoon snack, if you get hungry between breakfast and lunch, eat another recommended snack. Try to eat dinner before 7 PM, and then do not eat again until breakfast. Drink water with lemon until bedtime. Keep small sandwich bags of chopped carrots and celery and nuts in the refrigerator. Grab them for a quick snack when you are on the run.
• Keep a weekly weight-loss journal and diet diary (see Appendix A). Record your weight, symptoms of hormone imbalance, stress level, and exercise patterns. |
| Eat three meals a day and never skip breakfast. If you don't eat breakfast, your metabolism is more likely to
99 slow down to compensate for not receiving any new calories. In addition, you'll be more likely to experience low energy and food cravings later in the day. Eat slowly. It takes twenty minutes for your stomach to signal your brain that it is full. Try putting your fork down between bites, and take a drink of water to help you slow down.
Do not eat in front of the television; when your attention is elsewhere, you're more likely to overeat. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 This processed-food diet often consists of highly preserved bread products, doughnuts, prepackaged coffee cakes, and cereals laden with sugar for breakfast. (Think of it: one bowl of Cocoa Puffs has the same amount of sugar as a 50-gram bag of Hershey's Kisses, and a bowl of Corn Pops is the sugar equivalent of eating a Kit Kat bar.) Chips, multi-dye-colored cheese Goldfish, and pretzels in foil-lined bags, along with processed meats, fill the typical lunch box. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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 So he'd get me and molest me, and I'd be awake, and then let's get dressed and let's eat breakfast. I remember my mom didn't let me have sugar. Once, we got this sugar cereal. Normally, a kid is like, "Sugar!" and they're happy. I remember sitting over this bowl of smushberry or something, and just wanting to throw up. I was supposed to carry on with this daily routine after what had just happened, and I'm sitting over this food and part of my feeling was wanting to throw up, part of it was, "What's the use of eating?" It was hopeless. "What's the point of living? |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 It can actually be pretty overwhelming when you're trying to sort out what to have for breakfast, lunch, and dinner while coordinating the fact that similar foods can't overlap within a given time period. But if you can stick it out and stay with it for thirty days, the benefits can be enormous. For the first time, you may have answers to many questions about your own health that you've been unable to get anywhere else.
And what can be more empowering than that? |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| If you are like me, you have no interest in breakfast and would prefer to drink a cup of coffee to get the day started. I force myself to eat something that will give me good, clean energy for my body and brain. One of my staples is a half cup of oatmeal with one tablespoon of raw sugar, cinnamon and a little milk to make it creamy instead of clumpy. It only has about 200 calories, 30 grams of carbs and 3 grams of fat. It is quick, easy and will help reduce hunger for the rest of the day. For some added flavor and energy, cut up a half a banana or throw in some raisins or berries. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| G i n kgo for Memory Enhancement
OKAY, NOW THAT I've got your attention, let me add the requisite and boring disclaimers: If you're healthy, young, and have no particular health issues or memory problems, taking ginkgo isn't going to help you ace an exam that you would have otherwise failed, or suddenly start remembering what you had for breakfast four days ago. But that doesn't mean ginkgo doesn't have profound and important effects on the brain and other aspects of your health. It does. |
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