Cereal for Breakfast a Good Thing for Your Weight?

There are many proverbs in the world about getting healthy nutrition during the day. The most popular one being: “Eat breakfast like a king, eat lunch like a merchant, and eat dinner like a poor man.” It is far better not to skip breakfast than to think that morning cereal containing more sugar is bad for your health.

Getting up in the morning doesn’t just start the day; it also starts your activity after a good nights rest. So, having a good nutritious breakfast cereal, full with healthy fibers, is great boosting fuel for the body.

In the morning, when people are preparing to go to work or school, there isn’t much time for cooking; and the easiest way to ‘eat like a king’ is a bowl full of cereal with milk. Cereals are full of nutritious healthy fibers low in fat, minerals, and vitamins. They fill the body with energy that it needs throughout the day.

Now, there are some that question the nutritional characteristics of good cereal meal, stating that some cereals contain more sugar than usual. Thus, giving more answers to the appetite then the nutritional body needs.

Cereals with a little more sugar is not that dangerous at all, not to the small children either. The logic of it is that when you metabolize proteins and fibers in the morning, you will definitely spend it throughout the daily activities. Skipping breakfast is more dangerous then that.

Almost 10.000 children between the age of 9 and 18 participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) between 1999 and 2006. 20 percent of children between 9 to 13 years old and third of children between 14 to 18 years old are ‘breakfast skippers’.

Why do children skip breakfast? The number one reason for it is weight. Children think that skipping breakfast will lower their chances of getting fat or lose fat. Skipping breakfast makes quite the opposite. Having lunch on an empty stomach makes the body put calories and proteins ‘in stash’; keeping it there to the next time it is left without breakfast. The car won’t drive if it has no fuel in it. The same goes for the body.

Another reason why children don’t have cereal breakfast in the morning is the fact that some families have low-income status and cannot afford cereals every day. This situation is more common in the minority families.