Eating Whole Grains Every Day

Its Christmas Eve and I’m planning to take a little blogging break for a few days, but I found a study that I wanted to quickly share. Recent research published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association found that eating a daily serving of whole grains could reduce your risk of heart failure by 7%. (Self Magazine, Jan. 2009, p. 70) This extensive study involved more than 14,000 participants over 13 years.

Some easy ways to get whole grains into your diet are switching to whole grain bread, eating brown rice instead of white rice, and snacking on natural granola bars.

If you find it confusing to distinguish which foods are real whole grains, check out this helpful article on MSNBC, “Sifting through the facts about whole grains.”