Eat a Bowl of Cereal — And Lose Weight
You’ve all seen the commercials on TV challenging you to add cereal to your diet to help you lose weight. A new study scheduled to be published in the journal American Journal of Clinical Nutrition proved that extra fiber from cereals does indeed help you lose weight, including that pesky belly fat!
In this study, nearly 90,000 healthy Europeans were monitored for an average of six and a half years. Those having diets higher in fiber were more likely to lose weight and lower their waist measurement. Interestingly, fiber was cereals was associated with greater weight loss than fiber from eating fruits and vegetables!
For every 10 gram per day increase in fiber intake from cereal, there was an average weight loss of 77 grams per year (that’s about a quarter of a pound). And waist measurement decreased by one-tenth of a centimeter each year.
One serving (a cup) of Raisin Bran, for example, gives you 7 grams of fiber.
So eating cereal isn’t going to quickly make you skinny. But when you’re choosing calories to add to your diet, remember that cereals are a good choice to add important fibers and help promote weight loss.
So, like the commercials say, you need to ADD cereal to a good weight loss PROGRAM — cereal alone can’t BE the weight loss program!
So tomorrow morning, enjoy a nice cup of high fiber cereal. Then whistle for Fido and take a brisk walk as a great way to start your healthy day!
I dunno - what about the research showing that starting the day with a serious dose of protein (up to 1/3 of your daily requirement) keeps you more alert through a morning and is a better way to break your overnight ‘fast’ than faster-digesting (than protein) carbohydrates? Have you seen this article from the University of Maine examining various studies of the effects of different macro-nutrients on satiety when they’re consumed separately or in combination for breakfast? http://www.fsn.umaine.edu/0207camire.pdf
I tend to be a protein shake girl, myself - my normal 16 oz. homemade shake can take me at full steam from 7 a.m. to noon or later, but everyone’s mileage will vary.
Making sure you have enough protein in your diet is a very important step for weight management. Fit As Fido includes great protein-rich recipes — including a high protein breakfast treat!