Your cereal is making you fat
Mar 2nd, 2011
Yes, cereal is a very easy go-to meal to serve on mornings when the kids are fighting, the dog’s barking and you’re running late. That’s pretty much every morning in my house. But there is not one box of cereal to be found. There is a reason for that: cereal makes you fat. Most breakfast cereals are very high on the glycemic index. The glycemic index, or GI is a measure of the effects of carbohydrates on blood sugar levels. For most people, sending an overwhelming surge of sugar into your system is the prescription for building excess body fat and sets you up for a major crash later. It takes 2 minutes to microwave an egg and turkey sausage. Add some fresh fruit and breakfast is served. Or I guess you could serve up any one of these cereals that are almost devoid of all nutritional value and full of empty calories.
Top 10 most sugared kids cereals:
#10: General Mills Cinnamon Toast Crunch: 34 % sugar
#9: Frosted Rice Krispies: 39% sugar
#8: Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes: 39% sugar
#7: Reese’s Puffs: 40% sugar
#6: General Mills Apple Cinnamon Cheerios: 42% sugar
#5: Kellogg’s Apple Jacks: 42% sugar
#4: Trix: 43% sugar
#3: Kellogg’s Smorz Cereal: 43% sugar
#2: Kellogg’s Froot Loops: 45% sugar
#1: General Mills Cocoa Puffs: 47% sugar
For a healthy cereal alternative, try this homemade Apple Oat Cereal from weelicious.com!
Source: nutritiondata.com
Originally posted June 11, 2010
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