The benefits of breakfast cereal consumption (2014)
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>Much of this effect is likely to be due to the fortification of many breakfast cereals.
Might as well take a multi-vit and skip the sugars & carbs...
Or don't. Makes little if any difference[0]
[0] https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/routine-vitamin-supplementa...
That's a very very broad definition. A proper müsli is miles away from a processed sugary junk food breakfast cereal (eg Froot Loops)
A cup of oats has everything from fiber to polyphenols to 11g protein to a respectable amount of minerals (zinc, manganese, copper, magnesium, selenium).
A cup of Frosted Flakes has almost no fiber and really nothing except whatever they fortified it with.
But, on your topic, modern muesli is more like an unroasted granola mix these days. Mostly grains like oats and nuts. The original recipe even prescribes the pit and core of an apple.
Don't get me wrong, I love Corn-Pops and stuff, but I think it should be considered a dessert item for a weekend or something rather than something you feed to your kids every day.
There are plenty of cereals that are sweetened but are not going completely overboard like the old-fashioned ones, and I think that should be okay for breakfast.
There should be a cut-off on the proportional amount of sugar versus other ingredients.
Local chain has an entire aisle, often with 3 or 4 sizes of the popular ones. 100's of choices. Dozens of granolas. Fruity rings from every manufacturer you've heard of and several you haven't.
So alive and well in the US Midwest
Mass production, marketing departments and salespeople replaced food intakes based on their business results and the messages implanted into consumers heads are generating more sales.
Consumers don’t have the resources to make these kind of analysis and even so Kellogg's or Nestle would dim out their opposing communication.
I wonder how much of these benefits are conferred by consumption of the cereal, and how much are due to the kind of person who eats breakfast cereal, especially as an adult, just preferring a low fat, high fiber diet.
Always make sure to get enough estrogen in your breakfast.
But my first search regarding milk introduced it as an exogenous source of pure estrogen which is interesting in the context of breakfast cereals: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19496976/
When humans begin to cultivate a population of wild plants, there's a new selective pressure on those plants to better serve human beings. As a result, these horticultural practices in almost all cases created more nutritious food for human beings. Modern issues such pressure to look good on a shelf rather than keep human beings healthy enough to till fields are a blip on the radar, an issue stretching back less than 100 years. All in all the food we bred more closely matches what our evolutionary path lead our bodies to demand nutritionally, because if it didn't the plant's wouldn't have been able to outcompete their wild counterparts, people would stop growing them.
The watermelon specifically in the video was an underripe watermelon.
The watermelon was cut to eat on a feast table. All indications are, it was the best they had.
Fantasies about 'eating paleo' and such are just that, fantasies. To eat like we did thousands of years ago, you'd be eating plants that were barely digestible with toxins and organic compounds designed to injure us. Because until we tamed them, the plant had no pressure (as you say!) to be nutritional.
No, boxed candy cereal is not good for you. But eat oatmeal then (which is a cereal). Which is digestible, because we modified it heavily.
You're wrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren_Cordain
Call it bad science if you want, which you'll then have to defend, but it's not "bro" science.
I generally eat porridge for breakfast, good enough.
Sugar is everywhere and we do what we can to limit our intake.
I try to consume 30 grams of protein within the first hour of being awake and that would be difficult with cereal.
Sugar-coated fiber-free dessert cereals are what’s out of fashion.
In case a language barrier problem is at cause: there are cereal grains but this study is about things like fruity pebbles.