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Tips for Picking a Healthy Cereal
The cereal aisle at any grocery store is usually pretty intimidating. There are literally hundreds of choices and many of them have health claims right on the front of the box, but do you know how to pick a healthy cereal? Fitness magazine consulted Jackie Newgent, R.D., a culinary nutritionist in New York, to find out what to look for when picking out the right cereal.
Bark for Breakfast: Some Healthy Cereals Have NO Taste
Some people love to start their day with a hearty bowl of cereal. The milk, soy milk, or rice milk adds extra vitamins and protein. Cereals nowadays are made with heart-healthy whole grains, complete with the fiber and carbs you need.
Healthy Eating Tip: Choose Cereals With Fiber
I think the easiest breakfast option in the world is a bowl of cereal. But just because it is an easy option, doesn't mean it has to be unhealthy. I like starting my day off with a cereal that is high in fiber; it helps keep me full and helps me reach the recommended 30 gram mark for daily intake of fiber.
Food Review: Dorset Cereals
I was tired of my usual cereals for breakfast, so I perused the shelves for a new one and found Super Cranberry, Cherry & Almond Dorset Cereals (about $5).
The creative packaging definitely caught my eye. I loved that you could see the dried cherries and cranberries floating around with flakes of cereal and seeds.
Healthy Recipe: Make Your Own Muesli
Muesli is a traditional breakfast cereal made from rolled oats, fruit, and nuts. Since it's full of such wholesome ingredients, it's really healthy. You can buy it prepackaged, but I prefer to make my own so I can add in extra tasty ingredients that not only add more vitamins and fiber, but enhance the flavor as well.
Cereal Wars: Mainstream Vs. Healthy Version
I grew up on mainstream cereals like Cocoa Puffs and Lucky Charms. I'm amazed I learned anything in school on a breakfast like that. As a label reader, I know they're made with tons of sugar, corn syrup, and enriched flour, so now I only buy healthy cereals made with whole grains.
Healthy Dose Link Time
- Savory and healthy: spaghetti with walnuts, fennel, and peas — Shape
- Marathoner Paula Radcliffe believes she gets better with age — That's Fit
- The Denim Diet must be inspired by the skinny jean fad — FitCeleb
- An injection to the roof of the mouth could ease snoring — Vitamin G
- Sculpt your way to sexy and sleek curves — Self
- Start your morning with one of these high fiber and flavorful cereals — Daily Spark
- The low down on Prana Power Yoga — Social Workout
- Tips on fueling up for you next long run — Health
Cereals Marketed to Wee Ones Are the Least Healthy Ones
As if we didn't already know this... a new study out reveals that all of the commercials that bombard wee ones during Saturday morning cartoons are marketing the least healthy food options for youngsters. In between Imagination Movers and Dora the Explorer, tiny viewers are likely to see an advertisement for Lucky Charms, Coco Puffs, and loads of other sugar loaded cereals.
FDA Rethinks "Smart Choice" Food Labels
When the concept behind the "Smart Choice" food labels was introduced, it sounded like a good idea. The goal was to provide easy to digest nutritional information on the front of food packages and the products bearing the label were to meet health guidelines — low calorie count, low in sugar. But when the green check mark made its debut this August, it seemed rather fishy that the cereal Fruit Loops, which lists sugar as its first ingredient, could score the "Smart Choice" badge of approval.
Lil Links: How to Pick the Best Cereals
- Best cereals for kids — Cookie
- Matthew Settle takes a stroll with his Gossip Girl — Celebrity Baby Scoop
- Lil Wayne becomes a father while he awaits the birth of another — Celebrity Baby Blog
- The nipple changing magic — CafeMom
- School to make a bloody mess with a sheep — ParentDish
- 6 funniest television moments about birth control — Momversation
- Catching a cold and other outdated parenting myths — The Poop
- Prenatal yoga pays off — Fit Pregnancy
- Play date burn out — MOMformation
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