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Quick-Start-Meals – Immediate Action Info

Avoid anything out of a box These are nutrient-poor, phytochemical-poor, fibre-poor, rich in starchy carbs These breakfast cereals are one of the worst things to happen to humankind but marketing was the winner not health High carb cereals are made far more toxic by adding milk (high Insulin/IgF-1 response) and even honey or agave both [...]

Are these good breakfast choices?

Most people will have a bowl of cereal or muesli, oats or granola

Throw in a few berries and slice some bananas add some milk, and you have now created an oh so delicious and nutritious breakfast. Any why not add some honey to the toxic mix?

These choices are the worst choices in breakfast I have ever seen.

Why are these so bad? 

  1. All of these have a very high carbohydrate load (high glycaemic load):  That will increase your blood glucose and demand more insulin from your pancreas to deal with this glucose load. This is a problem for anyone with a struggling pancreas i.e anyone who may be suffering from prediabetes or diabetes. This can lead to Beta Cell Burnout where the pancreas just can’t produce any more insulin. This means insulin injections for life just to stay alive.
  2. The glucose spikes after eating (postprandial effects): Damage all your cells, tissues and organs, including your brain
  3. Fructose (fruit sugar) is very damaging to all your cells, tissues and organs: You may think that adding fruit is a great thing, and yes, some fruit like berries can be wonderful, but many fruits are rich in fructose. Any diabetic who suffers glucose related damage to their organ systems will attest to the toxicity of glucose. If you accept that glucose is toxic in large amounts, then consider fructose is 7X-10X more deadly than glucose1.
  4. Both glucose and fructose produce Advanced Glycation Endproducts (AGEs): in the body, and these are proteins damaged by glucose and fructose, with fructose a major culprit1. AGEs as the name suggests, do age you faster, as the elastin and collagen in skin also falls victim to the damaging (glycating) effect of glucose and fructose. Each meal incrementally and cumulatively damages your cells, tissues and organs over your lifetime. Think of each carbohydrate-loaded meal as a dagger ageing you meal-by-meal and in the process leading you ultimately to premature death. So it is a death by a thousand daggers. 
  5. The Glycaemic Index (GI) – Insulin Dissociation of milk2: Adding milk makes the cereal out of a box breakfast even more toxic. We have known about this GI-Insulin Dissociation for many years but have the public been warned of this? Milk and dairy have a marked insulin response that is NOT driven by carbohydrate. It is a protein that stimulates the Beta-Cells of the Pancreas to produce insulin2.   For a struggling pancreas this will be a disaster. We also know that high Insulin levels will result in a cancer forming molecule called IgF-1. Well, we won’t hear this as a public health issue, because we have to protect industries don’t we? For the 4 million people in Australia or the 90 million people in America with insulin resistance let alone the millions more with fully-blown Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM), this is just what they don’t need. A toxic concoction of a huge breakfast carbohydrate load (Glycaemic Load) that pushes insulin higher in millions of people who already have high insulin levels (insulin resistance) and this forces the struggling pancreas to just burn out. Do you think these are great breakfasts now? Is it any wonder there is so much chronic illnesss, cancers, diabetes, heart and vascular disease and Alzheimer’s in Western worlds that consume carb-heavy meals not just at breakfast but throughout the day. Let’s not forget carb-heavy snacks the poor pancreas has to deal with throughout the day.
  6. Poor nutrient values of cereal grains: The vast majority of cereals poured out of the box lack many essential vitamins, minerals and trace elements. Most minerals are bound by phytates in grains and these are compounds that lock away a nutrient. Phytates are anti-nutrients and other ‘anti-nutrient’ compounds can also prevent mineral uptake in the gastrointestinal tract. A superb article created by Prof Loren Cordain titled ‘Cereal Grains: Humanity’s Double-Edged Sword 3 should be essential reading for anyone thinking they are dietetic experts who ask you to consume a cereal poured out of a box. If these ‘experts’ were better informed, they would guide their clients to far better choices that are nutrient and phytonutrient dense. What you have for lunch or dinner could easily be eaten at breakfast to nourish your body not damage it. Cereal grains are essentially devoid of a multitude of phytochemicals and are limited in their fibre content. When you see cereal boxes stating  fortified with Iron or Calcium etc. this is not Big-Food being nice, it is because there is a nutrition hole that needs to be filled.

This running-start guide is a good beginning. Once you get this start, please ask your Dietitian to discuss other easy choices that tick all boxes and show you the range of easy-to-get items that will make life so much easier to have an amazing diet packed with health-promoting nutrition.

References:

  1. Guilbaud, A., Niquet-Leridon, C., Boulanger, E. and Tessier, F.J., 2016. How can diet affect the accumulation of advanced glycation end-products in the human body?. Foods, 5(4), p.84.
  2. Hoyt, G., Hickey, M.S. and Cordain, L., 2005. Dissociation of the glycaemic and insulinaemic responses to whole and skimmed milk. British Journal of Nutrition, 93(2), pp.175-177.
  3. Cordain, L., 1999. Cereal grains: humanity’s double-edged sword. World review of nutrition and dietetics, 84, pp.19-19.