Laurel on Health Food

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 [...]

Self Magazine reports that eating even a small amount of trans fats every day significantly increases your risk of heart disease.  Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health found that people who eat 4 grams of trans fat a day are 3x more likely to get heart disease than those who eat 2.5 grams [...]

CNN.com reports that a study from the Harvard School of Public Health showed that women with the highest levels of trans fat in their blood had three times the risk of heart disease than women with the lowest levels.  Trans fats are so problematic because our bodies cannot synthesize or create trans fats.  Most people [...]

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 [...]

HealthCastle.com suggests five of the healthiest packaged foods you can buy at the grocery store. It can be hard to find a healthy choice among convenient packaged foods, but Health Castle found five tasty items without the dreaded calories, trans fat, and refined sugars. Included in the list are two of my favorites: [...]