Top 6 Healthiest Breakfast Cereals

1. Kashi GoLean: GoLean has only 5 grams of sugar per serving and is a mix of “crunchy fiber", crispy soy protein grahams and honey-toasted seven whole grains & sesame puffs.”

2. All-Bran Bran Buds: another Kellogg’s original, Bran Buds contain psyllium, a natural fiber, and is low in sugar, fat and calories.


3. Cheerios: General Mills' original toasted whole oat flour “O’s” cereal, new versions of Cheerios are candied up with sugar and calories. Stick with the original: only 110 calories per cup, no saturated fat and 4 grams of fiber, 6 grams of sugar, and the sodium is a reasonable 210 milligrams.


4. Post’s Grape Nuts: Since this cereal is calorically dense (and weighs more per cup than flaked cereal), the serving size is about 1/3 cup instead of 1 cup. I add it to a flaked cereal, just a couple of tablespoons, for the crunch.


5. Health Valley Organic Oat Bran Flakes: Health Valley Cereals, like Barbara’s Cereals, are made from organically grown grains, and contain no artificial colors, flavors or preservatives. They are delicious, too. You can find Health Valley at many major grocery chains, as well as all natural foods sores.

6. When is cereal a great snack? When you try Nabisco’s Shredded Wheat ‘n Bran 100% Natural Whole Wheat MiniWheats. I love to eat these as a snack: they’re portable, crunchy and really satisfying. Fiber-rich (8 grams per serving)

The Most Powerful Anti - Oxidant

The humble blueberry is one of the most powerful foods you can eat. They’re packed with antioxidants, fight off certain cancers and heart disease and combat memory loss and the most common cause of vision loss and varicose veins.

Blueberries are health food superstars. They are loaded with vitamins, minerals and fiber. They also high in antioxidants flavonoids and anthocyanins. These substances are at the root of the new research on blueberries.

A team from Tufts University found that eating blueberries prevents loss of short-term memory. They showed that feeding mice a cup of blueberries a day increased their mental abilities and learning. The mice also improved their memory skills and explored their cages more.1

As it turns out, anthocyanin, the dye that gives blueberries their color, protects brain cells. It also contains antioxidants and calms inflammation.

Now they have begun to conduct the same studies on people. Early results show that people who ate a cup of blueberries a day performed 5-6% better on motor skills tests than control groups did.2

Studies conducted at the University of Illinois, show that anthocyanins in wild blueberries may inhibit both the initiation and promotion stages of cancer.3

Blueberries also contain ellagic acid, another powerful antioxidant. People who eat high levels of ellagic acid are three times less likely to develop cancer than people who don’t.4

Free radical damage causes heart disease. New studies are showing that the flavonoids in blueberries attack those free radicals.

Blueberries are also very high in dietary fiber. A single half pint has a whopping 5 grams of fiber. A Harvard study of over 40,000 men found that those with a high total fiber intake have a 40% lower risk of heart disease. 5

A Rutgers University team showed that blueberries protect against infections in the urine. Like cranberries, blueberries contain compounds that prevent bacteria from attaching to the wall of the bladder.6

Blueberries are rich in certain flavonoids that strengthen the walls of veins. Several European studies show that blueberries improve circulation through the veins, and decrease varicosities.7

The leading cause of blindness in elders is macular degeneration. An eye specialist at Scripps Hospital in La Jolla, California found that patients who ate blueberries had a marked improvement in their eyesight.8

Adding blueberries to your diet is a simple and flavorful way to improve your health through your diet. Fresh blueberries are available for nearly eight months of the year from producers across the Untied States and Canada.


To Your Good Health,

Al Sears, MD

Chocolate is Good for You

At least it is if you stick to cocoa, or chocolate with little saturated fat. Cocoa has flavonoids — the same health-boosting substances found in tea, red wine and soy foods. Studies suggest the flavonoids may help protect against heart disease and stroke. They slow blood’s ability to clot, and reduce potential for arterial plaque. One problem: Most commercial chocolate is made with partially hydrogenated vegetable oils and cholesterol-raising trans fatty acids — not to mention all the sugar and calories! For an occasional treat, choose dark chocolate, or cocoa made with lowfat milk.

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Belly fat - Lose It With These 5 Tips!

Belly fat - Lose It With These 5 Tips!


Belly fat. Its horrible and not very nice to look at,the majority of the population have to some degree or another, also the general population are on a hunt to find out how to get rid of it,usually they want some kind of miracle! slim people do not get away without having some belly fat either, we have all seen the skinny guy or gal walking around with a pot belly.

So far we have seen that there is a hell of a lot of people with some kind of belly fat problem and we have also seen that they are on the hunt to try and find ways to get rid of their belly fat, and usually in the easiest and quickest way possible!

Here are five tips on how you can start to get rid of that belly fat right away! These tips are nothing new and you might have already read them before,but thats okay, sometimes we have to read something over and over again before we take any action.

So here are my five tips on how to rid yourself of belly fat:

1) Don't Count Calories. counting calories does not work for long and i think is really ureasonable to tell someone they have to find out what calories are in what,who could keep that up for more than a few weeks before giving up out of sheer boredom and frustration!

2)Don't do the same Exercises day in day out,like the point above you will very quickly get bored and then your belly fat will decide to stay where it is,and why not it has'nt got any reason to move now has it! Mix your exercises up a little so that you are doing something slightly different every training session.

3) Losing weight and Losing belly fat are two totally different things!going back to the skinny person with a big pot belly is a good example of someone who concentrates on just losing bodyweight!

4) Decide how much fat you want to lose and how you want to look and then make some goals to acheive, choose one longterm goal and then break that up into weekly goals to keep you motivated,you will be suprised how much more easier it becomes to stick to a plan if that plan is written down in black and white!

5) Increase your metabolism to lose belly fat,if your metabolism speeds up then you will turn yourself into a fat burning machine! Do this by eating smaller meals more times in the day,the classic one is to eat six smaller meals spaced throughout the day.

So to summerise decide how much you want to lose and what you want to look like,write your goals down and then write smaller bite-sized goals to keep you motivated on a weekly basis,don't count calories just eat six smaller meals throughout the day which will then cuopled with exercise turbocharge your metabolism into a belly fat eating machine!also don't forget to change your exercises around often .