Choose Your Breakfast Wisely: Eat Outside the Box

As a Wellness Coach, one of the first rules I teach my students is the importance of breakfast. “A GOOD BREAKFAST!” Is your breakfast a healthy start for your day? An associate shared this article and I thought is was worth passing on.

Choose Your Breakfast Food Wisely

People often ask, what type of cereal should I eat?

In a presentation given by Sally Fallon entitled, "Dirty Secrets of the Food Processing Industry," she outlines the problems with Industrial Processing of foods. Industrial processing, which is so prevalent in our foods today, destroys the nutrients in food and makes digestion difficult. Also, the processing of foods often uses products such as sugar, white flour, hydrogenated oils, additives and synthetic vitamins.

Sally Fallon says, "Dry breakfast cereals are produced by a process called extrusion. Cereal makers first create a slurry of the grains and then put them in a machine called an extruder. The grains are forced out of a little hole at high temperature and pressure ... A blade slices off each little flake or shape, which is then carried past a nozzle and sprayed with a coating of oil and sugar to seal off the cereal from the ravages of milk and to give it crunch.

In his book Fighting the Food Giants, Paul Stitt tells us that the extrusion process used for these cereals destroys most of the nutrients in the grains. It destroys the fatty acids, it even destroys the chemical vitamins that are added at the end. The amino acids are rendered very toxic by this process ... This is how all the boxed cereals are made, even the ones sold in the health food stores. They are all made the same way and mostly in the same factories. All dry cereals that come in boxes are extruded cereals." It's best to eat no cereals.

So, what should you eat for breakfast? The same type of foods you eat at your other meals, whole, natural foods. Fresh vegetables and fruit, cheese, eggs, yogurt (plain, add some honey to flavor if needed), nuts or nut butters, and animal proteins (beef or pork or chicken products depending on your preference, preferably free-range, grass fed, nitrate-free, etc.). Also, protein shakes can be a quick, easy breakfast on occasion.

To read the entire article, which contains so much good information, visit: http://www.westonaprice.org/modernfood/dirty-secrets.html

This excerpt from Nutritional Healing Newsletter shared by Kyrston Miller March 19, 2012.

Education is the KEY! Are you living is a BOX?

You own the KEY to YOUR Health and Wellness.

Helen McCormick