5 Reasons Your Breakfast Cereal May Be Destroying Your Health

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, right? But what you didn’t know about breakfast cereal could be killing you….

I’m sure we’ve all heard the importance of starting off the day with a healthy breakfast. Unfortunately, far too many people assume this means raisin bran or a bowl of Wheaties.

In fact, breakfast cereals can have some downright nasty effects on your health. Obviously you probably know already to avoid the heavily sugar-drenched varieties, but even the types of breakfast cereal that many people think of as “healthy” are often far from it.

Check out this eye-opening article to find out why most breakfast cereals are far from being “the breakfast of champions”:

1. Most cereals (even “whole grain” or “high fiber”) cause extreme harm to your hormones and create runaway blood sugar in your body

One of the WORST things about most cereals, even so-called “whole grain” cereals is that they ALL cause a significant spike in your blood sugar (regardless of whether they are wheat, rice, or corn based) to dangerously high levels, which results in a cascade of fat storing hormones to be released in your body, and causes more carb cravings later in the day.

This is NOT the way to start your day if you care about your waistline or how much belly fat that you have.

In fact, even cereals that have added fiber (such as bran flakes or raisin bran) have been found to cause just as much of a massive spike in blood sugar as the low-fiber cereals such as rice or corn based cereals.  Remember that the starches in wheat, corn, or a bowl of rice cereal break down quickly in your body into SUGAR and immediately do as much harm to your blood sugar regulation system as if you ate 40-60 grams of pure corn syrup or pure table sugar.

Those massive spikes in your blood sugar essentially damage your cells in your body through a process called glycation, which accelerates the rate of aging in your joints, skin, organs, and even your brain.  Ouch…  That tiger on the cereal commercials is never going to warn you about that!

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2. Crunching your way to diabetes and belly fat every morning?

Think about this next time you’re gobbling down that bowl of bran flakes, rice puffs, or wheat biscuits while you’re running out the door in the morning…

The more cereal you eat, the more you constantly stress your pancreas and other organs involved in controlling your blood sugar.  Insulin levels surge every day to try to control your massive blood sugar attacks from all that cereal, and eventually, your insulin sensitivity suffers, leading many people to type 2 Diabetes….

Not only that, but causing high insulin levels in your body every morning by eating cereal also triggers your body to STORE body fat.  So if you want to be lean, cereal is directly going against your goal, and only making you fatter!

3. Gut Inflammation and even gut damage?

More bad news about cereal…

Any cereals with wheat ingredients in them can possibly cause gut inflammation and long term gut damage from too much gluten and lectins, even if you’re not officially gluten intolerant or gluten sensitive.

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And rice-based cereals (krispies, etc) aren’t much better, as they cause just as high of a blood sugar spike as pure table sugar… Ouch!

4. Cereal causes CRAVINGS for more carbs later in the day, leading to excess calories

The blood sugar spike and subsequent insulin surge from your morning cereal makes your body to try to get all that sugar out of your blood and into cells (usually fat cells), and that causes a big drop in your blood sugar hours later.  This makes you CRAVE more carb-based or sugary foods later in the day.

The result of this is a constant wild roller coaster ride of blood sugar and insulin all day long, leading you to eat more calories in any given day.

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5. Cereal makes your body a carb-burner instead of a fat-burner

The more carbs that you eat each day from foods such as cereal and breads, the more you train your body to rely on carbs for energy.  So when your blood sugar dips again, you need more carbs again, or you’ll have a major energy slump.

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For more information, as well as some much healthier breakfast alternatives, check out the full article here….