Cereal is a kind of the instant breakfast, popularly consume in western world. As it is one of the instant food type and the westerner’s dietary, cereal seems to be an excluded from the healthy food out there.
In fact, cereals are a kind of grain foods which have been consumed for over 10,000 years ago. Also, there are quite some studies found that wholegrain cereal food provide a lot of health benefits which can decrease many diseases risk rate like cancer or kidney problem.
Cereals contain a number of health benefits such as Vitamins and minerals. Eating cereals can also sustain the work of out internal organs. Studies also indicate that if you consume cereal regularly, you will have better nutritious food than people who seldom eat cereal. Plus, eating it regularly will make you gain a proper shape as you have sufficient dietary need per day.
Cereal in each meal contains many benefits dietary like carbohydrates, protein, the B-complex vitamins, including folate, several minerals, antioxidants, phytochemicals and fiber.
There is a study point out that the kids who have cereal as their breakfast every other day can skip a bit more breakfast than those who eat it fewer times. In the same sense, adults who eat cereal nearly every day can gain more fiber, vitamins and minerals whereas the fat and cholesterol in their body are lower.
According to a lot of studies, wholegrain cereal can also decrease the risk of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. A Harvard study reveals that adding wholegrain cereal in your breakfast everyday will decrease the risk of type 2 diabetes for 34%. The fiber in the cereal is indicated as the preventing factor of the diabetes risky.
However, there is still a debate on the benefit of cereal as some researches argue that refined cereal will not provide benefits of food as much as the whole grain ones. Recent studies indicate that refined cereals will lose a lot of phytochemicals which help on decreasing blood cholesterol level. Apart from phytochemical, vitamins and minerals are also less.
Besides less beneficial nutrition, refined cereals can increase sugar in blood and lead to the reaction of the pancreas.
However, refined cereal still has benefit food for your body, just less than wholegrain cereal. So if you can choose, choose the wholegrain ones. Anyway, nowadays, there is new white whole-wheat bread available in supermarket for those who are addicted to the taste of the refined cereal. The new white whole-wheat has the same look and taste as the white one but with more benefits to your body.
Having cereal as your daily breakfast, therefore, can be a good option for your health. About breakfast, there are also researches show how important it is as the followings:
It help losing weight as it help improve your metabolism. This is proved by the 90 % of the participators in the National Weight Registry that eat breakfast everyday and can lose weight for over 30 pounds in a year. Another study analyse that one of the reasons that help losing weight is that eating breakfast will make people want to have snack during the day less than not eating breakfast.
So you can gain good health easily by having cereal as your breakfast. For those who always eat cereal as their breakfast but still have a wondering on the benefit your breakfast, you can rely on what you eat. For those who always skip breakfast, change your habit a little step by starting your day with a cup of cereal will improve your health a lot more.