The Best Cereals for Your Health
People eating healthy on a daily basis typically have more energy and are full for longer periods of time during the day and live a healthier life on the inside. Their cholesterol is low, their blood pressure is normal, and their blood sugar levels are also normal. Eating healthy on a daily basis also includes eating healthy cereals during the breakfast meal because the first meal of the day is possibly the most important meal of the day. Eating breakfast daily improves our energy, improves our focus, maintains our weight and gives our metabolism a needed boost.
When eating cereal in the morning be sure to avoid cereals high in sugar, cereals with fake fruit, and cereals with a lot of salt in them. Instead, make sure your cereal is high in fiber, not so sweet, and full of zinc, calcium, and iron. Zinc, calcium, and iron are important minerals that your body needs to improve health and maintain functions of the body, especially for children and the elderly. There are hundreds of cereals on the market today that are filled with a ton of sugar, making the meal of breakfast too much like desert.
Some of the best cereals for your health include Raisin Bran Crunch, Cheerios, and Fiber One. These three cereals provide your body with the fiber needed to help your organs function properly while also reducing your cholesterol levels. Cheerios is the cereal known the most to lower a person’s cholesterol level. It has done such a good job with lowering cholesterol that some doctors will actually have their patients go on a Cheerios eating diet to try and lower their cholesterol level over a specific period of time. The best cereals for the following specific health problems include:
- Anemia: Special K, Bran Flakes, and Sultana Bran
- Obesity: All-Bran Plus, Sultana bran, Special K, porridge oats, Commonsense Special K, Shredded Wheat, Weetabix
- Heart Disease: Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies, Special K, Healthwise Bran Flakes, Healthwise Sultana Bran
- High Cholesterol: porridge oats, Ready Brek Commonsense Oat Bran Flakes
- Osteoporosis: Ready Brek, All Bran Plus, Special K
- Stress: Optima Fruit and Fibre
- Cancer: Shredded Wheat, All Bran Plus, All Bran Bite Size, Healthwise Bran Flakes, Sultana Bran, Shreddies, Weetabix
If you feed your young child cereal each morning for breakfast you should consider looking at what is inside the cereals you are feeding them. Instead of putting cereals in front of them that are high in sugar and other bad ingredients you should feed them cereals that have a ton of fiber and other nutrients for your body. Cereals that should absolutely be avoided by children include Cap’n Crunch, Post’s Golden Crisps, and Quaker Oats Natural Oat and Honey Granola. The final cereal listed here sounds healthy but in all honesty it really isn’t. It consists of 210 calories, 6 grams of fat, and 12 grams of sugar in a serving size of a ½ cup. Stick with Cheerios, Special K, and cereals with the word fiber in their title.
