Buyer Beware: Your Cereal May Contain More Sugar Than a Dessert!

"No fat," "oat fiber," "multigrain flakes," "helps lower cholesterol." Cereal boxes make all kinds of claims to get you to pick them for your health. Buyer beware... even cereals that include lots of fiber and whole grains usually have 3-4 teaspoons of sugar per cup of cereal. "In fact, worldwide we are consuming about 500 extra calories a day from sugar. That's just about what you would need to consume if you wanted to gain a pound a week," Kristin Kirkpatrick, M.S., R.D., L.D, manager of Wellness Nutrition Services at Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute, wrote in the HuffPost blog "10 Things You Don't Know About Sugar (And What You Don't Know Could Hurt You)." Cereal #1 -- Protein and Fiber A protein and fiber cereal with a name that suggests "healthy!" All natural ingredients 7 whole grains 9 grams of protein 8 grams of fiber Sounds healthy, right? But the nutritional facts tell a different story: Would you put 4 teaspoons of sugar on your cereal in the morning? Cereal #2 -- Whole Grain and Oat Fiber Made whole grain and oat fibre that "helps lower cholesterol." Again this sounds like a food that will enhance your health, but take a look at the sugar in the nutritional facts: This is not as healthy as the food company wants you to believe. Don't be fooled by these so-called healthy cereals. Read the nutritional labels first. With some searching at the grocery store, you can find an oat fiber, bran or whole grain cereal with no added sugar, or one with only...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news