Is all cerial always good for you?
How about Cinemon Toast crunch. - It says its mostly wheat and Rice with suger on it. So is will it make you fat cause it has suger?
I asume that cherios are good for you - and like Total is good for you and Special K - but what about the other cerials that are marketed mostly for kids -like Lucky Charms w/ marshmellos.
Anyway my frined insists that my Cinemon Toast Cruch and Lucky charms diet will make me fat. Can I call him stupid?
Eating a high fiber breakfast is tied into lower rates of obesity, heart disease and diabetes. However I don’t think low fiber breakfast cereals make a difference. And a diet high in cereal may cause weight loss because cereal is eaten with milk and dairy products have been shown to aid weight loss if you get 3-5 servings a day of them.
I’m gonna recommend Alpha-Bits.
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That depends. What else is in this diet beside cerael and milk? If that’s all it is you will get fat and die of malnutrition. Cereal and milk does not provide enough nutrition to sustain human life over a long period of time. Cinnamon Toast Crunch contains practically no protein, and only a fraction of the minimum daily requirement of most vitamins and minerals. It is almost all carbs. Lucky Charms is no better. Add fortified lowfat milk, and you add some protein and vitamins, but not enough to live on without other food. Chances are you will die from scurvy in a few months.
No. All Im asking is if I should avoid eating Cinemon Toast Crunch if your tyring to loose weight on a normal healthy diet.
If cereal and milk is part of a balanced, low fat diet that supplies no more calories than your body metabolizes, you should not gain weight. Here is an Estimated Calorie Requirement calculator that can help you decide how many calories your body uses to maintain the same weight. If you eat more, you gain weight; if you eat less, you lose weight. From that standpoint, what you eat is largely irrelevant.
Don’t call him stupid, by any means, if he’s really your friend.
If you are active, feel healthy and you’re not overweight, then you ought to disagree with him. Whatever you’re doing seems to work, so why change? If, for instance, you’re male, somewhere between 13 and 19, very active (either in organized sports or stuff like constant skateboarding and outdoor stuff), and are lean, then I’d guess that anything remotely resembling food will do you no harm.
On the other hand, if you’re in your late 20s, sedentary, and don’t look lean in the mirror, then your breakfast maybe isn’t the best thing.
I don’t have Cinnamon Toast Crunch or Lucky Charms in the house right now :smack:, but I’m almost certain they have lots of simple carbohydrates including sugar and processed wheat flour. That stuff may give you a quick jolt of energy, but it also may screw up your blood sugar levels so you feel run down later. It also doesn’t have enough fiber to make your digestive system happy, and it may deliver extra calories that your body just converts into fat.
The bottom line is that if you’re very highly active, just about any food will work. But if you’re a typical office worker, you should consider what you eat. High-sugar no-fiber cereals, Egg McMuffins, doughnuts, and even bagels are not the best thing for you. Try 1 cup of cooked extra-thick oatmeal with a dash of cinnamon a tablespoon of maple syrup, a few raisins, and a glass of 1% or 2% milk. You may not miss the cereal at all!
True enough but maybe a bit simple? If, in order to not gain weight, or to lose weight, you only have a certain number of calories per day you can eat, it makes sense to use those calories to the best possible advantage.
If Cinnamon Toast Crunch (whatever that is) is mostly highly refined carbohydrates and sugar, then while eating it might not cause you to gain weight, if the rest of your diet is adequate, you’re not doing yourself too many favours in terms of nutrition and calories.
If weight loss or maintenance is your goal, then you might be better off opting for a breakfast which has a better nutritional profile and less sugar, and saving the sugary cereal for an occasional treat.
There is also evidence which suggests that an adequate breakfast can have a fair bit of influence on your energy levels and attention span for the rest of the day.
That was the point. If weight loss or gain is the only goal, calorie content is the only relevant criteria. You could eat nothing but pure sugar, and lose weight so long as the calories consumed were less than the calories metabolized.
But, as you point out, if general nutrition, physical health and mental acuity are included in your goals, then a more sensible, balanced diet in required.
What does me trying to lose weight have to do with you eating Cinnamon Toast Crunch?
Ok, you wanted a plain answer- most cereals are better than an Egg McMuffin. So- if it’s a choice between eggs, bacon & hashbrowns or cold cereal and milk- go for the latter.
But in that cereal aisle- there are many cereals MUCH better for you. I highly suggest Frosted Mini-Wheats. It does have that sugary numminess, but also it’s low in fat and pretty darn high in fiber. Geenrally, you want a breakfats cereal to be “low fat and high-fiber”. Most cereals are low in fat, so that’s pretty easy. I have found many of the higher fiber cerals to be a lot like chewing cardboard, Frosted Mini-wheats (and others along that line) to be an exception.
Here are some other good tasty brekker’s:
Yogurt- anything with “live culture”. A good source of calcium, yogurt also seems to help you lose weight, and it’s overall good for you. Find a brand & flavour you like.
Oatmeal- even those instant flavoured kinds.
Fruit smoothees.
Comming from a low carb point of view:
cereals will cause your blood sugar to spike, your body will dump insulin into the blood, which tells your body to convert that sugar to fat and store it as fast as it can (your body does not like high blood sugar levels). Often it overshoots and then you get low blood sugar, and your body signals for you to eat something.
So in that respect a Egg McMuffin (or 2) are much better (avoid the transfat fried hashbrown however)
That isn’t true though. One study on police officers and underfeeding found that those who ate no extra protein only lost 1/3 as much fat as those who ate casien protein and only 1/2 as much as those who ate whey protein.
On another note while dicking around online I saw that cinnamon may help prevent diabetes. So cinnamon toast crunch away.
That would be:
cereal
cinnamon
sugar
Cheerios
marshmallows
Your cite does not contradict my claim. All the officers lost weight. I am sure that protein can enhance weight loss, but my assertion stands: if you eat more calories than your body burns, you gain weight; if you eat less, you lose weight.
While not a direct contradiction, it does call into question your statement. Specifically that their may be a point that a person eating mostly carbs could gain weight, while that person eating the same calories eating a balanced diet of fat/carbs/protein could loose weight.
Cerial? Cinemon?
Not to be a dick, but it’s Cereal and Cinnamon.
I’ve heard it said that you could chop up the cardboard cereal box, put it in a bowl and pour milk over it, and it would provide about as much nutrition as most commercial breakfast cereals.
IF your breakfast cereal is “Sugar frosted Choco bombs” or similar- then you have a point. But plain old shredded wheat won’t do that, and in many cases some sugar is exactly what is needed to wake you up and get you going.
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Johanna
**- that’s just a joke or maybe a UL. Hell, even “Choco-frosted Sugar bombs” will provide one with plenty of simple Carbs- and carbs are one of the very definitions of “nutrition” (along with Fats, Protiens, Minerals & Vitamins). True, some cereals weren’t very nutritionaly balanced (they are getting better, but one does have to read the damn label), but cardboard provides exactly 0 nutrition (to us, anyway, as we can’t digest cellulose).
A halfway decent cereal, with low fat and a reasonable amount of fiber is fine, and can certainly be part of a “balanced nutrition meal”. Some have added vitamins, which can be a good idea. A bowl of “Frosted Mini-Wheats” with lowfat milk and a glass of OJ is a good way to start the morning. You’ve got complex & simple carbs, fiber, protien, good amounts of Calcium, VitD, Vit C, and some fat from the milk. Not bad at all. Not that an occasional Egg McMuffin is bad for you either…