Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: Take a look at a box of whole grain Total breakfast cereal from General Mills. This is the company that has decided to switch all of their cereal products to whole-grain products. In terms of public health and nutrition, this is a very big deal.
First off, I'm impressed. I give a thumbs-up to General Mills for making the right choice and putting out a mainstream product that is actually somewhat good for you. It is definitely better for you than any of the breakfast cereals made with refined grains. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 Topping—add sliced strawberries to a salad, breakfast cereal, or yogurt.
• Blend into your favorite smoothie.
Strawberry Shortcake by Heather )ose Servings: 12 • Prep and cooking time: 25 minutes
Native Americans crushed strawberries and mixed them with cornmeal which they baked into a bread. Colonists loved it so much that they eventually developed their own version and "Strawberry Shortcake" was born! This recipe contains four powerhouse foods. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 The Kitavan Islanders ate a diet almost 70 percent carbohydrate—but they never saw a Twinkie or a processed breakfast cereal. Their carbs came from tubers, fruits, and vegetables, which is considered a low-glycemic, or low-sugar, diet.
While no one has investigated this directly, factory-farmed meat and chicken contain hormones and hormone-like compounds that can affect the body's hormonal balance and could certainly be part of the problem. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| After all (or so the consumer is meant to think), if it's included in breakfast cereal, there can't be anything unsafe about it—right?
These products' manufacturers must be aware of the risk of using psyllium, as they include warnings on the labels similar to the ones below (chosen randomly from actual products).
"Psyllium Warnings
• Taking this product without adequate fluid may cause it to swell and block your throat or esophagus and may cause choking.
• Do not take this product if you have difficulty in swallowing. |
Michael Pollan
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 There are in fact hundreds of foodish products in the supermarket that your ancestors simply wouldn't recognize as food: breakfast cereal bars transected by bright white veins representing, but in reality having nothing to do with, milk; "protein waters" and "nondairy creamer"; cheeselike foodstuffs equally innocent of any bovine contribution; cakelike cylinders (with creamlike fillings) called Twinkies that never grow stale. Don't eat anything incapable of rotting is another personal policy you might consider adopting. |
| The legacy of that revaluation is the breakfast cereal, the strategic objective of which was to dethrone animal protein at the morning meal.
Ever since, the history of modern nutritionism has been a history of macronutrients at war: protein against carbs; carbs against proteins, and then fats; fats against carbs. Beginning with Liebig, in each age nutritionism has organized most of its energies around an imperial nutrient: protein in the nineteenth century, fat in the twentieth, and, it stands to reason, carbohydrates will occupy our attention in the twenty-first. |
| As we've seen, processing whole foods—refining, chemically preserving, and canning them—depletes them of many nutrients, a few of which are then added back: B vitamins in refined flour, vitamins and minerals in breakfast cereal and bread. Fortifying processed foods with missing nutrients is surely better than leaving them out, but food science can add back only the small handful of nutrients that food science recognizes as important today. What is it overlooking? |
| Play your cards right and you can even get the American Heart Association to endorse your new breakfast cereal as "heart healthy." As I write, the FDA has just signed off on a new health claim for Frito-Lay chips on the grounds that eating chips fried in polyunsaturated fats can help you reduce your consumption of saturated fats, thereby conferring blessings on your cardiovascular system. So can a notorious junk food pass through the needle eye of nutritionist logic and come out the other side looking like a health food. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That's more than two servings of a sweetened breakfast cereal. It's a lot of sugar to deal with. And if you're diabetic or hypoglycemic, you should never drink these juices on an empty stomach. When you eat real pomegranate seeds, you see, the natural seed fibers slow the absorption of the pomegranate sugars. So the glycemic index of pomegranate seeds is far lower than the glycemic index of pomegranate juice. Keep this in mind when planning your consumption of this juice. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Health claims from sugary breakfast cereals
General Mills has launched a new promotional campaign that appears to be making outrageous health claims for Honey Nut Cheerios (a sugary breakfast cereal). Some of the ads say Honey Nut Cheerios will "help lower your cholesterol," and the front of the cereal box screams, "New Pyramid Recommends More WHOLE GRAIN!"
Now I've seen everything. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 GRAIN, VEGETARIAN
SuperFoodsRx Granola
Low in Jat and high in flavor, this simple-to-make granola can double as a breakfast cereal.
Servings: 8 Serving Size: '/4 cup Volume: 2 cups
Total Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Prep Time: 10 minutes l'/2 cups old-fashioned oatmeal
IV2 teaspoons canola oil
IV2 tablespoons honey
2 tablespoons chopped walnuts
]/s cup dried blueberries
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Preheat the oven to 300 degrees. In a bowl mix together the ingredients in the order listed, thoroughly mixing after each addition. |
Andreas Moritz
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 There is hardly a commercial breakfast cereal in the world that does not seem to contain everything a child needs to receive the "perfectly balanced" dietary nutrition. However, despite this "valuable" contribution to family health, a frightening number of children show signs of ill health and lacking immunity. The vitamins that are added to the cereals supposedly protect the child against the vitamin-destroying sugar, but it seems that this guarantee is no longer guaranteed. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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If you wake up one morning to find that you suddenly can barely hear the birds chirping outside your window or your kids fighting over their breakfast cereal, you may be experiencing sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL), more commonly called sudden deafness. SSNHL is defined as a hearing loss in one ear that develops over 72 hours or less. In fact, one in three people with SSNHL wake up deaf in one ear. For the other SSNHL sufferers, the hrst sign or hearing loss is often a popping sound or a ringing in the ears. (See Ringing in Your Ears, above. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| You might also add cinnamon to your oatmeal or breakfast cereal, since cinnamon helps regulate blood sugar and effectively lowers the glycemic index of anything you eat during the same meal.
However, it should be noted that pomegranate sugars are somewhat unique in that they do not spike blood sugar levels as easily as other fruit sugars. It's a mysterious effect, actually, and scientists are not sure why pomegranate juice seems to be so mild in its blood sugar effects. This makes it the ideal juice for diabetics, as it also helps reduce atherosclerosis risks in diabetics. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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| Try rolled rye flakes for a tasty, hot breakfast cereal.
Use rye bread to breathe new life into your favorite sandwich.
Rye Pizza Dough or Rolls by Chef J. Hugh McEvoy Servings: 8 • Prep and cooking time: 1 hour
This recipe contains two powerhouse foods. ingredients:
/ cup light rye flour 2 cups white bread flour
1 cup water
2 teaspoons active dry baker's
I teaspoon kosher salt 'A teaspoon maple sugar or syrup 1 tablespoon extra-virgin yeast olive oil directions:
Place warm water, maple sugar, and yeast in a medium-large bowl. Let it stand until the yeast begins to grow. |
| This makes 3 cups of cooked millet—I cup for this pudding and 2 cups left over to eat as a side dish with meals or as a hot breakfast cereal.
How to Cook Whole Grain Millet break it down . . .
Calories: 150; Total fat: 2.5g; Saturated fat: lg; Cholesterol: 65mg; Sodium: 165mg; Total carbs: 25g; Fiber: lg; Sugar: 15g; Protein: 6g.
Mint (Mentha)
NOT IN MINT CONDITION! Did you know. .. that the "Mint Julep," a popular drink from the southern United States, is mainly bourbon and sugar with only a few mint leaves added?
What's the Story?
There are at least 25 to 30 known mint species. |
| Try raisins, chopped nuts, low-fat granola, or a favorite breakfast cereal in place of coconut. break it down . . .
Calories: 150; Total fat: 3g; Saturated fat: 2g; Cholesterol: Omg; Sodium: 50mg; Total carbs: 33g; Fiber: 4g; Sugar: 25g; Protein: 4g.
Lemons (Citrus Union)
LEMONADE'S FIRST STAND Did you know . . . the earliest written evidence of lemonade comes from Egypt?
What's the Story?
The lemon is actually a hybrid citrus tree developed as a cross between a lime and a citron, an ancient fruit that is best known for its candied peel. |
| Add hazelnuts to your favorite salad, cookies, stir-fry, or breakfast cereal.
• Add an exciting texture to your yogurt with diced hazelnuts.
Cranberry Pear Salad with Curried Hazelnuts
Courtesy of the Hazelnut Council
Servings: 8 • Prep and cooking time: 45 to 60 minutes
This recipe contains an amazing thirteen powerhouse foods! |
| Hugh McEvoy Servings: 6 • Prep and cooking time: 60 minutes
This makes a great breakfast cereal alternative. Serve with maple syrup and cinnamon. This recipe contains six powerhouse foods. ingredients:
/ teaspoon garlic cloves, chopped Kosher salt and black pepper to directions:
Using a heavy sauce pot, cook kamut berries in one gallon of boiling salted water until tender, approximately 45 to 50 minutes. Drain cooked grain and reserve for next steps.
Using the pot the grain was cooked in, saute chopped onion in extra-virgin olive oil and butter until lightly browned. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 In fact, one recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Wales shows that people who eat superior, complex carbohydrates for breakfast (such as slow-cooking oatmeal and high-fiber breakfast cereal) confessions of a formerly fuzzy-brained sugar kicker
"If I eat sweets, / can't concentrate or think clearly. Now that I'm not eating sugar, my mind is sharper and my short-term memory recall is better."
—Lisa J., 44, New York City have better memories than those who begin their days with low-caliber carbs (such as donuts and pastries). |
Marshall Editions
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 Eliminate all foods containing gluten from the diet, including ice •J cream and ice cream cones, baby cereal, canned meats, biscuits, infant
¦gyjl^r formula, bread, breakfast cereal, pasta, cakes and cake mixes, cookies, milk (malted and powdered), frankfurters, noodles, pudding mix, pancakes and pancake syrup, salad dressings, wheat flour, crackers, whipped cream substitutes, and potato chips. Grains to be avoided include wheat, rye, and barley. |
| Ground flax seeds, 1-2 tbsp a day sprinkled on your y^j^W breakfast cereal, can also give you plenty of healthy fiber. Consume one or two servings of bright colored fruits and vegetables, such as berries, cherries, and carrots, every day. These contain powerful antioxidants that will strengthen the walls of the veins and improve their elasticity. Try eating pancakes mades with buckwheat, which naturally contains a flavonoid called rutin that will increase the strength of blood vessels. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Preparing and Eating Quinoa
You can use quinoa to make flour, soup, or breakfast cereal. Most quinoa sold in the United States has been sold as whole grain that is cooked separately as rice or in combination dishes such as pilaf. Noted natural-foods expert and author Rebecca Wood suggests cooking about 2 cups of stock or water per cup of quinoa, which should yield about 3 cups of cooked grain and take only about 15 minutes to prepare. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 The food industry currently supplements everything from flour to breakfast cereal to baby formula with iron.
You know what they say about too much of a good thing?
Our relationship with iron is much more complex than it's been considered traditionally. It's essential—but it also provides a proverbial leg up to just about every biological threat to our lives. With very few exceptions in the form of a few bacteria that use other metals in its place, almost all life on earth needs iron to survive.
Parasites hunt us for our iron; cancer cells thrive on our iron. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 The cholesterol-lowering effect of a breakfast cereal containing Psyllium fibre. MedJAust 1994; 161(11-12):660-664.
Rodriguez-Moran M, Guerrero-Romero F, Lazcano-Burciaga G. Lipid- and glucose-lowering efficacy of Plantago Psyllium in type II diabetes. In: J Diabetes Complications; 12(5):273-8, Sep-Oct 1998.
Romero AL, Romero JE, Galaviz S, Fernandez ML. Cookies enriched with Psyllium or oat bran lower plasma LDL cholesterol in normal and hypercholesterolemic men from Northern Mexico. In: J Am Coll Nutr; /7(6):601-8, Dec 1998.
Sandhu JS, et al., Carbohdr Res 93:247-259. 1981. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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| CLICKING JAW
Your breakfast cereal may snap, crackle, or pop, but if your jaw does the same whenever you bite into your food or yawn, you might have one of the most common signs of the very common condition temporomandibular joint disorder (TMJ). (See Chapter 5.) Other TMJ signs may include ringing or pain in the ears, sensitive teeth, jaw locking, and pain. Clicking can also signal that your teeth are misaligned (malocclusion). Not surprisingly, if you've been whacked in the face, you could wind up with a jaw that clicks.
STIFF JAW
SIGN OF THE TIMES
JPT^. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 MEET YOUR ANTIHUNGER HORMONES
Greens are packed with fiber, but not the kind you get from high-bran breakfast cereal. Green vegetable fiber increases the speed with which food moves through your intestines. You've been told that fiber is good for you because it prevents constipation. What you probably don't know is that the faster food moves through your lower bowel, the more antihunger hormones in your intestinal cells beam up to your brain, telling you not to eat. I bet you think a gastric bypass (stomach stapling) works by making a person's stomach smaller, right? Wrong. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 Based on the results of the studies I've reviewed, I recommend that you not take any amount of vitamin A or beta-carotene in the form of fortified foods like breakfast cereal or vitamins and supplements.
VITAMIN C
Vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin that is required for the growth and repair of many tissues of the body. As I discussed earlier, from the late 1960s until just before his death in 1994, Nobel Prize-winning scientist Linus Pauling was convinced that megadoses of vitamin C were not only good for you in general but specifically were able to prevent colds. |
Elaine Magee
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 Or when you're having hot or cold breakfast cereal, reach for one that has plenty of whole wheat. When a Chinese restaurant offers you a choice between brown and white rice or an Italian restaurant offers the option of whole wheat pasta (some do here in California), take the whole grain ball and run with it. |
Mike Adams
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 A head of organic lettuce doesn't counteract a bowl of sugary breakfast cereal. You don't get good karma or extra credit just by eating organic produce.
Food products to avoid
Now that you have the complete shopping list of healthy foods to purchase, let's talk about what food products you should avoid purchasing.
You should already be familiar with the ingredients to avoid, so if you make a habit of reading ingredient labels, you'll automatically avoid the foods discussed below. |
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