Is breakfast cereal like Grape Nuts or Cheerios really healthy? chemicals in them?

Question

How Fattening?

ARE THEY FATTENING?

Answer 1

I think you know the answer before you asked. Any product that goes through hundreds of processes is going to be full of chemicals and de-nourished by high temperature cooking so it is
then necessary to add nutritional additives to make them sound healthy. See these eye opening sites : www.dietbites.com/Diet-Muse (definitely states they make you gain weight.)
CBBC Newsround | UK | Breakfast cereals 'bad for you' Campaigners say many cereals contain too much salt, sugar or fat.
news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/uk/newsid
On the other hand ......www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/....states
a study has found eating whole-grain breakfast cereals seven or more times per week can lower the risk of heart failure, etc. .
Conducted by researchers in Division of Aging at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, and based on an analysis of the observational Physicians’ Health Study. Physicians who ate a whole-grain breakfast cereal seven or more times per week were 28 percent less likely to develop heart failure over the course of the study than those who never ate such cereal.
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Answer 2

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Answer 3

All cereal has too much sugar and too much salt in them, and major amounts of so called safe chemicals. No chemicals are safe. Your body cannot digest chemicals. Your poor liver has to do that and works overtime trying to rid your body of these toxins.
Too much sugar can cause diabetes and too much fat can harden your arteries.

The only safe bet is porridge or one of the all natural cereals like Stredded wheat. Then don't ruin it by adding sugar.

Answer 4

If there were chemicals in cereals i think they would be banned.Look out for the sugar content as this is often misleading.High sugar plus high carbs = fattening.Don't forget the natural sugars that are present in the dried fruit they use in these cereals.

Answer 5

they're extra acceptable than say fruit loops, yet they have all that sugar, i think of many times happening ones are extra acceptable, and now they have an oat crunch one it incredibly is good there are so lots extra cereals that have extra fiber and much less sugar

Answer 6

I raised my HDL from 34 to 73 by eating whole grain cereal and whole grain breads

Answer 7

I'm suspicious of the ones with dried fruit because the sugar content in dried fruit can be quite high. On the whole I don't think they are as healthy as they make out.

Answer 8

Try Kashi GoLean Crunch, or Kashi Good Friends. Both are high in fiber and they taste great.

Answer 9

Chris,

I don't know what exactly is in it, but to me it seems that whatever it contains, it's still the healthiest option and better than carbs (bread), fat (sausage, ham) or pure sugar (nutella, jam).