It’s pretty much common knowledge that donuts, pop-tarts and sugar-coated cereal are not optimal choices for starting the day. But many people will try to sell you on ‘healthy whole grains’ and the benefits of cereals like Total, Wheaties, Special K and Cheerios or whole grain toast, bagels, etc. These same people will probably feed you some bogus information about how eating steak and eggs is going to raise your cholesterol and send you to an early grave. Let’s get the cholesterol myth out of the way. Dietary cholesterol has little to no long-term effect on blood lipid levels. In fact, cholesterol, if not obtained through the diet, is produced by the liver – our bodies need it! Additionally, a 2007 study reported in Medical Science Monitor showed eating one or more eggs a day did not increase the risk of heart disease or stroke, and that eating eggs may be associated with a decrease in blood pressure.
If that’s not enough to convince you that a ‘healthy’ breakfast doesn’t have to be covered with milk and eaten out of a bowl or slathered with peanut butter or cream cheese, check out this new study, published in Nutrition Research. It compared Plasma glucose, insulin, appetite hormones, and total daily caloric intake in men that had consumed a breakfast of either eggs or a bagel. Guess what? The egg eaters experienced less plasma glucose and insulin variation, were less hungry, and ate fewer calories all day in comparison to the bagel eaters.
Breakfast of Champions?
It’s pretty much common knowledge that donuts, pop-tarts and sugar-coated cereal are not optimal choices for starting the day. But many people will try to sell you on ‘healthy whole grains’ and the benefits of cereals like Total, Wheaties, Special K and Cheerios or whole grain toast, bagels, etc. These same people will probably feed you some bogus information about how eating steak and eggs is going to raise your cholesterol and send you to an early grave. Let’s get the cholesterol myth out of the way. Dietary cholesterol has little to no long-term effect on blood lipid levels. In fact, cholesterol, if not obtained through the diet, is produced by the liver – our bodies need it! Additionally, a 2007 study reported in Medical Science Monitor showed eating one or more eggs a day did not increase the risk of heart disease or stroke, and that eating eggs may be associated with a decrease in blood pressure.
If that’s not enough to convince you that a ‘healthy’ breakfast doesn’t have to be covered with milk and eaten out of a bowl or slathered with peanut butter or cream cheese, check out this new study, published in Nutrition Research. It compared Plasma glucose, insulin, appetite hormones, and total daily caloric intake in men that had consumed a breakfast of either eggs or a bagel. Guess what? The egg eaters experienced less plasma glucose and insulin variation, were less hungry, and ate fewer calories all day in comparison to the bagel eaters.
What are you having for Breakfast tomorrow?
Amy Kubal, MS, RD, Paleo Dietitian
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