Don't blow off breakfast

Don't blow off breakfast

(NaturalNews) Most of us think if we blow-off breakfast we'll lose weight. How would you like to lose 30 pounds within a year?

Let's
face it, losing weight isn't easy. But keeping it off is way harder.
The people that study weight dilemmas say it can be done with little
effort.

Reports say that one in five people can manage to lose 10 percent of body weight and keep it off for at least a year.

In
more than 4,000 of successful weight losers (30 pounds lost and kept
off) that participated in the National Weight Control Registry,
scientists are trying to figure out what they do differently from other
people that have a problem losing weight and keeping it off.

Yep,
they ate breakfast every day. Well, at least three out of four. Not
bacon, ham, or sausage and eggs, but a bowl of high fiber cereal and
dried and/or fresh fruit.

Understand one thing, we are not
talking about the major brands that became the "enemies of the people"
by their contributions to defeat the California GMO labeling bill, and
who load their cereals with GMOs and sugar. We are talking about oatmeal
and other whole grains.

It seems that people who eat a high
fiber cereal for breakfast are more likely to have a low body mass index
(BMI), which is measure of obesity.

Women, especially, are 24
percent more likely to have healthy BMI if they eat breakfast. Men who
eat breakfast regularly tend to weigh less and are less likely to gain
weight, as they get older.

Eating a high fiber cereal suppresses your appetite, allows you to eat less, and improves how your body handles blood sugar after a meal, because it helps food move through your small intestine faster that eating refined cereals.

Not
eating refined cereals and grains triggers the body to a "fullness"
hormone for two to four hours longer than it normally would when you eat
crap.

It was found that whole grain breakfast
eaters tend to eat less fat during the rest of the day, yet have more
energy for exercise and other physical activities. Using rice milk or
hemp milk and dried fruits like black currents, apricots, figs, raisins,
and prunes will give you more than enough calcium and save you from
ingesting the ever-popular antibiotic, growth hormone, GMO, and
pesticide-laden milk from the feed fed the cows. If you are hooked on
milk, get goat's milk. It's closer to mother's milk anyway. And getting
more calcium is linked to a lower BMI as well.

We have learned
that eating whole grains can drop diabetes risk as well. Now, we are
learning that eating a bowl of whole grain cereal daily can do this also
due to the enormous supply of fiber.

It
has been found that people who eat a bowl of cereal seven days a week
are 37 percent less likely to get diabetes. If you can do this at least
two to six times a week you can still drop your risk by 24 percent.

Whole
grains offer stronger protection that refined grains because, as I
said, you eat less, your belly feels fuller, you become less hungry, and
you wind up eating fewer calories. The good news - fiber has no
calories, you can eat as much as you like, and your body needs the fiber
to function at its best.

Fiber also slows down the absorption of
glucose in your gut, which evens out the spikes in your insulin and
blood sugar that normally manifest after eating refined carbohydrates.

What
happens is that your cells become more sensitive to insulin over time
as you need less of it to handle the rise in blood sugar. Since insulin
resistant people are more likely to develop diabetes, improving your
sensitivity can lower your risk. Also, whole grains have less effect on
your blood sugar than refined grains.

When you regularly eat
fiber it leads to changes in the types of bacteria living in your gut.
There's obese bacteria found in obese people and lean bacteria found in
slim people. Really.

Obese bacteria makes a compound called LPS
(lipopolysaccharide), which has been shown to increase weight gain,
liver fat, and factors of inflammation and insulin resistance, which are
connected in the development of diabetes.

A daily bowl of high
fiber, unrefined cereal can help your brain health as well, because the
regulating of the blood sugar will lower your risk of Alzheimer's and
other dementias.

In people with diabetes, insulin resistance, or
chronically high blood sugar, the brain cells can't get enough glucose
to do their job. This leads to a fuel shortage, which can damage the
blood vessels in the brain, contributing to dementia.

High blood
sugar also creates damaging substances called advanced glycosylation end
products and keeps your body from clearing beta-amyloid out of brain
cells. The buildup of both beta-amyloid and the end products are linked
to Alzheimer's.

So, three steps to lower your risk of dementia:
1. Eat nutritious foods like whole grains that help regulate blood sugar.
2. Lose weight if you are overweight.
3. Exercise 30 minutes a day for at least five days a week.

In
case you forgot, those long things that come down from your hips are
called legs. If you put one in front of the other, it's called walking.
And, if you do it faster it will increase your heartbeat and burn more
calories.

Basically, you can protect yourself from heart failure,
coronary heart disease, and high blood pressure for less that a few
bucks a week by eating a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast.

Heart
disease is the number one killer in the United States. In coronary heart
disease, the arteries that carry blood to your heart become clogged
from plaque buildup. This is known as arthrosclerosis. As the arteries
narrow, your heart can't get enough oxygen or nutrients to work
effectively.

In one study of postmenopausal women with coronary
heart disease, eating 3 grams of fiber daily slowed the progression of
arthrosclerosis almost as much as getting poisoned with a statin drug.
Eating right gives you serious protection.
One in five 40-year-olds
are at risk of developing congestive heart failure, a condition where
your heart cannot pump enough blood to meet the body's needs.

At
first, you feel tired and experience shortness of breath after heavy
activity. Don't worry though; eventually light activity will exhaust
you. Eating a bowl of oatmeal or some other high fiber whole grain can
make you 29 percent less likely to suffer heart failure compared to
those that do not due this.

You've heard the saying, "in one end
and out the other." What that means is what you put into your mouth make
a big difference in how it comes out. Eating the right foods can ease
constipation and keep you regular, with less straining.

Why? It's
not rocket science. Fiber, especially bran, softens stool, adds bulk,
and moves it through the colon faster. Women with bowl disorders, who
ate a high fiber breakfast every day improved their constipation and
needed fewer laxatives then women who didn't eat the cereal.

But
wait, there's more. Whole grain cereals are great sources of magnesium.
The magnesium and the high fiber present a double whammy when it comes
to fighting constipation. It's also excellent to drink more water with a
high fiber diet as it helps with digestion.

Bear in mind that
the major cereal companies load their garbage with sugar and fat-laden
yogurt, GMOs, and refined grains, which are diametrically opposed to
good health.

For what it's worth, I have a few favorite
breakfasts. Oatmeal, with rice milk, bananas, blueberries, and pitted
dates are yummy. A lot of times I will eat leftover quinoa,
buckwheat, or brown rice and steamed veggies. But my all-time favorite
is an Amy's all-organic Sonoma burger, on whole rye toast, with avocado
on one side and hummus on the other, with tomato, cucumber, sweet onion,
ketchup and kale. What's cool about the Sonoma burger is all you have
to do is put it in the toaster. Oh yeah, Amy's California burger is all
organic as well.

Aloha!

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