It would depend on your lifestyle, of course but, as others have posted above, daily breakfast with cereal is normally better than breakfast with sausage and beer.
How come Kellogg’s don’t sell Fruit’n’Fibre in the US? I could live on that stuff, it’s delicious and nutritious.
Round here that cereal was most recently sold by Post, but was recently discontinued.
Regional and specialty cereal makers may still carry variants. Bob’s Red Bill, just for one, has at least a couple of varieties.
Also, the Cheerios, Special K, Total, and other mainstream cereal lines have added varieties with dehydrated strawberries or other fruits in them
America does love its cereal.
Just out of curiosity, what makes you sure that it’s nutritious? I’m not doubting you, I’d just like to see what an independent analysis says (ie, not what’s on the box).
No meat, either.
Regular sex is still okay, though, right?
Nope. John Harvey Kellogg was married to his wife for over 40 years, but they slept in separate rooms and never had sex.
Outspoken as he was against sex, he was even more outspoken against masturbation, believing the practice to cause every kind of moral and physical decay.
His substitute for these pleasures were the aforementioned abstemious diet, sunbathing, exercise, and enemas so vigorous that one machine in his employ could introduce fifteen gallons of water in mere minutes.
In addition to all this, Kellogg was naturally an advocate of “race strengthening” and eugenics.
He and his brother gave us Corn Flakes. When I was a kid I would eat them at the breakfast table with my pap, before we went fishing.
I still eat them today. The nice people who make them have little connection to the nasty ones who invented them, and I generally think more of my pap when I eat them than I do of Wellville.
If you read the bio of Kellogg, you may become convinced that Anthony Hopkins’ seemingly over-the-top portrayal in “Wellville” was actually tastefully restrained. Kellogg on the subject of masturbation:
Well, if everyone refrained from sex, he wouldn’t have much of a market anymore, what with cereal being generally a kid’s food and all.
In the butt, Bob.
That’s not an enema - that’s a car wash, that is!
Just to elaborate on this a little, whole grain carbs are more filling, meaning you eat less, and the starches are converted to sugars slowly. Refined carbs convert quickly, causing a spike in blood sugar and triggering hunger – meaning you eat more. Whole grains are also great at preventing colon cancer.
Yep. And don’t be fooled by “whole wheat”. It’s mostly a marketing term and does not mean “whole grain”.
Correct. And even some packages of bread will say “whole grain” on the front, but it carries as little weight as if it said “Tastes yummy!” Read the ingredients. I look for fiber content, myself.
Blimey, “delicious and nutritious” was a just light-hearted reference to the sort of spiel they use to sell these things. I didn’t expect to be asked for a cite. And surely all food is nutritious, by definition? Anyway, my store brand Fruit & Fibre (not the real Kellogg’s deal, but close enough) has 7.7g per 100g fibre by AOAC analysis, whatever that is. Not too shabby. That figure is from the nutritional information on the box, but I see no reason to doubt it.
Oh, I thought you were being completely serious. In that case, never mind!
So I guess I’m going to make the leap from Corn Flakes to Wheaties, as Wheaties offer a bit more fiber.
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Switch to corn groats then. :mad:
Very good fiber content.