Don't Eat Cereal for Breakfast!

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"My friend told me that eating cereal for breakfast is a bad thing. Americans have been doing it for generations. How can it be bad?"

True. Americans have been eating cereal for breakfast beginning with the Baby Boomer generation. Americans have also been getting more and more overweight beginning with the Baby Boomer generation. The fact of the matter is that cereal was never sold as a solo breakfast food. You may recall the commercials that billed a bowl of cereal as a "healthy part of this nutritious breakfast". That nutritious breakfast included a glass of milk, a piece of fresh fruit and either a couple eggs or a few slices of bacon.

A bowl of cereal on it's own, even with the milk you eat with it, is not a nutritious breakfast! It is a fast carb that will give you just enough energy to dash out the door but you'll be falling asleep in traffic unless you stop for that triple espresso Americano.

Breakfast really is the most important meal of the day. By skipping the cereal and going for a high protein breakfast that gets at least 30% of its calories from eggs or another source of protein, you'll find that you will retain much less water throughout the day and your resting metabolism will increase about 20%.

What does this mean in layman's terms?

A high protein breakfast (30% of total calories coming from protein) will make you feel less bloated, make your pants fit more comfortably, help you burn more calories just sitting at your desk and give you enough energy to get your day off on the right foot.

Just because Americans have been doing something for generations doesn't mean it is a good thing. Look at how fat we are as a society. Look at how fat our children are. Those two things prove that we've been doing breakfast wrong for generations and it is time we started doing it right!

*Note: It doesn't matter how healthy your cereal looks or what the commercials say - unless 30% of your breakfast calories are from protein, your dieting efforts are destined to fail.

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Lisa used to be a freelance writer and Community Manager for Families.com, but she has finally made the jump to novelist.

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