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Hey
The other day I read an article in The Mirror about different types of cereal that basically empahsied how unhealthy the many types of cereal are- 75% it actually indicates. It mentioned some of the cereals that are unexpectedly the worst types, so what is actually healthy in cereal?
Steve
The other day I read an article in The Mirror about different types of cereal that basically empahsied how unhealthy the many types of cereal are- 75% it actually indicates. It mentioned some of the cereals that are unexpectedly the worst types, so what is actually healthy in cereal?
Steve
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therefore cereals like bran flakes, weetabix original, special k are good for you. especially the bran flakes because they are very high in fibre.
which cereals were you surprised by then?
On the plus side a lot of brand name cereals have extra vitamins and minerals in the.
i usually have some alpen or you could have something like shredded wheat/weetabix.
why not try having some fruit after your breakfast too? even if it's just a banana and some fruit juice.
cornflakes and rice crispies etc do have some sugar in them but its not in anything like the same quantities.
I think the issue is that a lot of them are marketed at children and people think its healthy to have cereal in the morning, but looking at the nutritional value of some of the leading ones, you seriously would be as well having a bar of chocolate for breakfast, healthwise.
The warning is that they are not perfect, lots of them are sugary etc, and you can tell (most of the sweet kids type ones) the more misleading ones are things like corn flakes, and quite possibly alpen that use nice sticky sugar to hold the cereal together.
Cereal makes a great breakfast, especially as most people eat it with milk, but be warned it's not as healthy as you may think.
If you are worried about sugar intake, then supplement with Alpha Lipic Acid. ALA will divert excess sugar out of the body.
That's rubbish. Or do you not realise how mcuh sugar is in certain cereals? (as already mentioned)
There are some cereals which contain a bit of fruit as well.
What do you think?:rolleyes:
Thats why I only eat porridge or toast. Breakfast cereals are a very unhealthy marketing trick, like McDonalds :P
women 2000
men 2500
Do you want to explain to me why the above figures are not accurate? And do you want to explain to why the rda of sugar is the same?
If I ate 2000cals a day id be huge. It varies from person to person. I dont know about the RDA for sugar, but I think that noone NEEDS extra sugar to be added to anything. theres enough natural sugar in fruits and vegetables without adding 50% extra sugar to some flakes of corn. If you want sweet stuff, its better to add a little bit of your own sugar to something so you can control it, and they are saying that most of these cereals arent particularly healthy, yet they are marketed as a healthy thing and even aimed at children.
The issue of sugar intake is quite complicated, as this page explains. Briefly, here's what it says:
"Sugar, being a source of energy, contributes to the energy density of the diet, regardless of whether it is supplied as table sugar or as the sugar present in fruit or milk. However, government dietary guidelines classify sugars by their source and recommend that intake of those sugars not present in fruit or milk, sometimes referred to as non-milk extrinsic sugars should be reduced to an average of 10% of total energy."
SAL;T is the real nasty as far as i understand it.
Bran flakes are nice, special K is nice too. Like rolly said - salts more dangerous than sugar so thats the one to you need to be extra careful of.
I buy raisins and dried apricots, then cuts them up into ickle little bits. Tastes yummy
salt, sugar, calories, complex carbohydrates, dieting of every kind imaginable, this is good, this is bad, etc
~ everyone will do just fine if they eat a variety of food. - end of.
doesn't make much difference though!
i was bored the other week (as in REALLY bored) and after putting my cereal in the bowl, i decided to weigh it. (what can i say, the scales were already on the counter!)
and it turned out that the bowl of fruit and fibre i had in front of me weighed a whopping.. 140g!! (or something horrendous like that - cant remember exactly!) which is more than 3x more than the serving size on the packet :eek:
made me feel like a right heifer lol
although saying that, the serving sizes they have on the boxes are hardly practical anyway! 40g of the stuff is hardly enough to fill up my gerbils let alone me :rolleyes:
nope (im not THAT stupid!!) i put the cereal in the scales and weighed it. did not include bowl