Comments on: Breakfast Cereal Eaters are Thinner, More Nourished

By: Darya Pino

Darya Pino — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:28:00 +0000

tbone:

When they say 100%, they are referring to the Reference Daily Intakes published by the USDA. That is good enough reason alone to not trust them. But there are better reasons too.

The USDA is solely concerned with the health of US agriculture (go figure). Their recommendations are shaped by lobbiests in the major ag industries, such as corn, soy, dairy and meat. That is why the food pyramid recommends an inconceivable 25% of calories from milk, and meat and beans are in the same category. Buh?

Other than that, the reason cereals (Total, Special K or whatever) have so many vitamins is because they are fortified. They are not the natural vitamins from the whole grain (which will seem very unimpressive, comparatively, if you are going by just numbers). So essentially they have ground up a multivitamin and put it in your cereal. See above article to understand why this is a problem.

If you aren't eating very healthy overall, fortification is probably good for you. However, you are still probably better off eating real whole grains and just taking a multivitamin. If you are like me and eat whole foods almost exclusively, you do not need fortified cereals.

By: tbone

tbone — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:14:00 +0000

What are you views on the cereal Total and their claims of 100% Daily Value of vitamins?

By: Darya Pino

Darya Pino — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:57:00 +0000

nicholas:

I nearly forgot about PowerSauce bars! I'm pretty sure those things are just apple cores and Chinese newspapers though.

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anon2:

I think people erroneously believe it is easier/faster to go grab something at Starbucks, and that's why they do it anyway. But I contend if you have everything you need in your kitchen already, it is actually much faster to just eat at home. Not to mention waaaay cheaper.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:47:00 +0000

That video had nothing to do with breakfast.
The bottom line is that you just need to sit down and take the time to do breakfast right, gettin a starbucks/lemon muffin on the way to work won’t cut it- everyone knows it, yet still does it.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:36:00 +0000

Personally, the magical PowerSauce Bar is my breakfast of choice.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:22:00 +0000

So my brother’s breakfast of diet coke and pop-tarts isn’t gonna cut it?

By: Jed Wolpaw

Jed Wolpaw — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:19:00 +0000

Need I say again: Optimum Power Cereal=Breakfast of Championships (no copyright violation).

If you need convincing just look on the back of the box, Dean Karnassus runs 100 mile marathons after eating the stuff.

'nuf said