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Breakfast

Cancer-Fighting Fiber

by laurel on July 4, 2007

Cooking Light Magazine reports that researchers from the University of Leeds in England found that premenopausal women who eat 25-30 grams of fiber a day are 50% less likely to develop breast cancer than those who eat less fiber. The study tracked the eating habits of over 35,000 women for seven years. [...]

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Kellogg Making Cereals More Nutritious

by laurel on June 21, 2007

MSNBC reports that Kellogg Co. announced they would boost the nutritional value of cereals marketed to children or stop marketing them as a whole.  Check out the new requirements for a single serving of Kellogg’s cereals:

200 calories or less
No trans fat
2 g saturated fat or less
230 mg sodium or less
12 g sugar or less

Kellogg’s change [...]

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Eat Your Breakfast

by laurel on June 6, 2007

NineMSN.com reports that breakfast is indeed the most important meal of the day.  Eating breakfast gives you energy, boosts your concentration, and helps maintain a healthy weight.
A nutrition professor in college told me that a bowl of healthy low-sugar, high fiber cereal with skim or low-fat milk was possibily the best breakfast you could eat.  [...]

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Breakfast Cereal Switch-Up

by laurel on February 19, 2007

Women’s Health Magazine reports that a 2005 ABC study showed that 31% of breakfast eaters chose cereal as their first meal of the day. A bowl of cereal can be a perfect breakfast if you choose the brands without trans fat or added sugars. Women’s Health makes it easy with a few examples of [...]

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