Guest theSun Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 I usually eat some surgary fucking cereals, but they appear to have most of the same vitamins and minerals as the healthy ones. WTF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lindrum Larry Cocopipe Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 but more sugar. duh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweepstakes Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_fortification Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velazquez Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 honey nut cheerios Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SR4 Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 i was told by a nutritionist a long while back that just about all cereals are horrible for you unless you are a laborer because of the sugars (tons of sugar in all cereals, even the "healthy" ones) and unecessary carbs. dunno how true that is, so don't rely on me. anyone know the scoop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweepstakes Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 In 2008 and 2009, I used to eat a bowl of Kashi with vanilla soymilk every morning. I thought I was being "healthy". That sounds so gross to me know. Now I just have oats with peanut butter and a sliced up banana. And something with bacon on the weekend. Reading Michael Pollan made me much more suspicious about eating things from a box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoA Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 The ingredients are more important than the so called "nutritional facts." For instance, if something has "natural" or "artificial flavors" listed as an ingredient, don't eat it. If something is not from nature, it isn't good for you to eat. If you eat processed foods that are filled with all sorts of chemicals, you are going to get sick and be unhealthy. Don't be fooled by the big labels on the front of the package that read "All-natural" etc. Unfortunately, many foods we eat are genetically modified ( http://www.naturalnews.com/032826_Monsanto_seed_supply.html ). Shouldn't the organic food that comes straight from the earth be cheaper than the laboratory food that kills you? What is the secret of soylent green? http://www.lifenews.com/2011/10/25/pepsi-shareholders-demand-it-stop-using-aborted-fetal-cells/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweepstakes Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 What is the secret of soylent green? http://www.lifenews....ed-fetal-cells/ No way... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SR4 Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 The first sentence of that article is seriously grammatically flawed. I might need another source than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baph Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Yeah, I get all my news from suspicious pro-lifer secondary sources. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoA Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 The first sentence of that article is seriously grammatically flawed. I might need another source than that. http://www.augustagazette.com/opinions/columnists/x1760395126/Erin-Fox-You-might-want-to-put-down-that-Pepsi http://thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/9596-pepsi-getting-heat-for-use-of-aborted-fetal-cells-in-flavor-research http://www.naturalnews.com/034777_Pepsi_aborted_fetus_cells_soda_flavoring.html http://www.pnas.org/content/99/7/4692.full Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoA Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 My point is that they put suspicious, unhealthy ingredients in our food. That Pepsi story is just a recent event that I thought might illustrate that. The other poisonous ingredients that are in foods like that are even worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweepstakes Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 OK, now let's be fair, all those links except the Augusta Gazette and the PNAS one had a distinct whiff of right-wing cray-cray about them. Plus the Augusta Gazette one seemed to be referencing one of the others, and the PNAS one was indecipherable without a biology degree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweepstakes Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 My point is that many food product manufacturers put suspicious, unhealthy ingredients in our food. Though I do agree with this (corrected for increased specificity and reduced paranoia). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meadows and Labyrinths Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 raisin bran. there are two whole scoops of raisins in there. raisin bran. TWO SCOOPS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kokeboka Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 The best way to control what goes into your cereals, I suppose, is to make them yourself. Buying the oats, raisins and whatnot independently, and mix to taste. I don't have the patience to do that, so I end up getting the supposedly healthier ones, the diet cereals that are marketed mostly towards women. Nestle stopped selling Lucky Charms in Portugal during the 90's - I know they were brutally sugary and unhealthy, but I used to love them when I was a kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Drahken Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 I only buy cereal when its on sale once or twice a year, and I usually end up eating it as a desert lol. Only thing I eat for breakfast when I do eat is organic bananas and high fiber oatmeal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest boo Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 i have fucking sainsburys own brand Muesli and i actually like it because it's mostly whole almonds, hazelnuts and dried fruit. which i like more than cinnamon and sugar flavoured baked pureed corn smears or whatever edit: also i remain full up, sometimes it's like 8 hours before i get to eat again so i was told by a nutritionist a long while back that just about all cereals are horrible for you unless you are a laborer because of the sugars (tons of sugar in all cereals, even the "healthy" ones) and unecessary carbs. dunno how true that is, so don't rely on me. anyone know the scoop? but if you're a laborer you eat meat and eggs for breakfast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 i was told by a nutritionist a long while back that just about all cereals are horrible for you unless you are a laborer because of the sugars (tons of sugar in all cereals, even the "healthy" ones) and unecessary carbs. dunno how true that is, so don't rely on me. anyone know the scoop? In other words - exercise. The fat is from the milk (which is also high in protein) more than the cereals. Obviously eating Lucky Charms (which is basically candy in a box) is not great. Cereals like corn flakes etc. aren't terrible for you, but they aren't necessarily the healthiest choice. I love cereal, but I try not to eat them too much. If cereals were really terrible foods you'd see people dropping dead all over the place since they've been around for more than a hundred years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YEK Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 well it's probably not great to eat sugar cerals in the morning, that's how it works Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jules Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 i heard they make peanut butter cheerios now. my mind was blown that it took this long. cookie crisp was a fav of mine back in the day. i remember my dad wanted me to put wheat germ on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ganus Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 cookie crisp was a fav of mine back in the day. i remember my dad wanted me to put wheat germ on it. amazing. I eat cornflakes and raisin bran with fruit sliced on top. if they didn't sweeten the raisins so much, raisin bran would actually be pretty healthy I think. oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fiznuthian Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 The sugar is the least of your worries. Most cereal grains processed into cereals have high glycemic loads anyways, so you're going to eat them and spike your insulin regardless. Throw in milk and your insulin goes pretty high after some cereal. This means your body begins storing fatty acids as adipose tissue -> body fat. Not to mention the many other problems you will experience over time with elevated insulin early in the morning. The notion that breakfast is healthy is ridiculous as pretty much everyone wakes up in the morning in a mild ketosis and very low serum glucose levels, throwing that out of whack is a horrible way to start your day. Cereal grains also contain ridiculous amounts of phytates which bind to minerals like calcium, magnesium, iron, and zinc. Your intestines will not be able to absorb these minerals easily. How ironic that most of the cereals on the market are "fortified" with these minerals specifically... Tooth decay is by and large a result of high phytic acid diets in the Western world, not necessarily sugars in the diet. Teeth can reform freely in it's absence. There are also numerous other anti-nutrients in cereal grains that have been identified, and high concentrations of dietary lectins which so far appear to disagree strongly with human intestinal epithelial cells. Here's a 65 page research paper discussing why cereal grains fuck us up. http://www.direct-ms.org/pdf/EvolutionPaleolithic/Cereal%20Sword.pdf Published in the World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fiznuthian Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 i was told by a nutritionist a long while back that just about all cereals are horrible for you unless you are a laborer because of the sugars (tons of sugar in all cereals, even the "healthy" ones) and unecessary carbs. dunno how true that is, so don't rely on me. anyone know the scoop? In other words - exercise. The fat is from the milk (which is also high in protein) more than the cereals. Obviously eating Lucky Charms (which is basically candy in a box) is not great. Cereals like corn flakes etc. aren't terrible for you, but they aren't necessarily the healthiest choice. I love cereal, but I try not to eat them too much. If cereals were really terrible foods you'd see people dropping dead all over the place since they've been around for more than a hundred years. A bowl of cereal is extremely high in carbohydrates that will rapidly convert to serum glucose. Corn flakes too. Milk is also highly insulinogenic in itself. It's ironic that dietary fat does not actually cause us to become fat at all. Carbohydrates hold the key. Unless your insulin elevates high enough, fatty acids will be placed and removed from storage in your body freely throughout your day. This is normal, and does not contribute to becoming fat. As soon as you pound down some cereals and insulin goes on the rise, those fatty acids become locked away and will not burn out to fuel your body. It's called insulin resistance, and it's the single largest contributing factor for obesity, diabetes, and a large list of other health issues. Supposing that you ate primarily saturated fat and very little carbohydrates, your body will produce the blood glucose is needs by gluconeogenesis. Dietary fats are not insulinogenic, and thus do not promote energy storage. Because no excess glucose is flowing in blood, your insulin stays low, and fatty acids are both stored and removed freely. You will remain insulin sensitive and you absolutely will not become fat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fiznuthian Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 that said my favorite cereal is hands down kashi anything, followed closely by cocoa puffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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