What’s behind those breakfast cereals?

 
Editor's note: This video is an industry PR attempt to convince you how healthy sugar coated corn flakes are. You may see through some of the nonsense, but there is another factor - GMO corn! The full article has a commentary on this video.

'While sleepily shaking your cereal flakes into a bowl, and absently pouring the milk over them, have you ever stopped to think, just before taking a big, slurpy bite, “How is this stuff made?” If you went ahead and took the time to find out, you’d be surprised to learn that no matter how healthy and natural the advertising on the packages makes those crunchy bits of wheat, oats, and corn seem, they are actually a highly processed food whose nutrient value is questionable. But that wasn’t how it was supposed to be at all.'


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If You Want To Lose Weight, Eat A Huge Breakfast

 

'Researchers claim that Breakfast really could be the most important meal of the day when it comes to losing weight.


Over several months, obese women who ate half their daily calories first thing fared better than those eating a much smaller amount.

"My guess is that eating breakfast helps you spread out your hunger and manage your food intake better throughout the day," said a study author Dr. James O. Hill, director of the Center for Human Nutrition at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver.' 


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Healthy Homemade Granola

By Jon Janaka, Yoga+

'Yogis and doctors agree: breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It is literally the breaking of the fast we have observed overnight. By morning the body is ready for nourishment -and if we skip or skimp on it, both our emotions and our appetites can run rampant.

In the language of ayurveda, skipping breakfast disturbs sadhaka pitta, a subtle energy that governs the emotions, filling us with joy and contentment when it’s in balance, or impatience and irritability when it’s not. On a physical level, a neglected digestive fire (jathar agni) creates an acidic imbalance in the stomach and tempts us to overeat later on. So start your day off right with a breakfast that will ground and center you: healthy homemade granola.'

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