Breakfast - good advice

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From one of my favorite sources, William Campbell Douglass, II, MD, comes this info on breakfasts - and what a travesty MOST of them are! But he also paints a picture of what a GOOD breakfast can be!

 

Linda

Is your breakfast worse than no breakfast?A few weeks ago, I came across a study that I can say without a doubt is amateurish and useless. Here's what the researchers concluded:"Eating breakfast might have beneficial effects on appetite, insulin resistance and energy metabolism... [sugar abnormality] rates were 35 percent to 50 percent lower among people who ate breakfast every day compared to those who frequently skipped it." Come again? Talking about breakfast, without identifying what they mean by breakfast, is about as sensible as talking about love or religion or sex without some qualification. A nutritious breakfast IS good - but the breakfast chosen by most Americans is worse than no breakfast at all. The big food companies have convinced most people that food barely adequate for barn animals and lots of sugar and starch are the way to start your day. And the junk medicine study mentioned above perpetuates the food industry's propaganda by saying that "people who ate whole-grain cereal each day had a 15 percent lower risk of insulin resistance syndrome."If you start your day the Kellogg way, you'll get what you deserve - obesity and diabetes. Cereal, muffins, and other standard breakfast offerings contain massive amounts of sugar - or pure carbohydrates that your body converts to sugar. Bombarding your system with these foods every morning will make your pancreas work overtime to produce insulin - and wearing out your pancreas will lead to diabetes. Calling it "insulin-resistant diabetes" or "adult onset diabetes" or "insulin resistance syndrome" distracts us from the simple truth: that the most common addiction in the world - and far more harmful than cocaine or heroin - is SUGAR ADDICTION. In the good old days prior to WW II, diabetes was called exactly what it was: "sugar diabetes." What you eat for breakfast shouldn't be any different than what you eat for the rest of the day. A high animal fat breakfast gets you off to a stable start, free of violent fluctuations in blood sugar. So... (1) Eat eggs, which can be prepared in a hundred different ways from raw, to poached, to juevos rancheros. (2) Pork (especially bacon), medium rare beef, and poached fish are all excellent sources of fat and protein that will keep you satisfied much longer than that donut.(3) Dairy products (including cheese) are good too - just make sure they're all unhomogenized. (4) If you need something sweet to go along with your protein- packed breakfast, have a piece of fresh whole fruit - not juice or canned fruit. (5) Wash it all down with a cup of black coffee and you'll be set to face the day.

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