Five Breakfast Foods To Avoid

Are you eating breakfast?

If so, what did you eat for breakfast today?

We’ve all heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but are we putting that much importance on what we choose to put into our bodies to begin the day?

What we choose to eat for breakfast affects the whole day through.

Having a healthy breakfast will set you for good. metabolism will get fired up, the food choice will energize you, and will eliminate tempting cravings.

Do you grab a quick on-the-go breakfast to eat while driving to work, without putting any thought into it? This will only set you up for serious health problems to come.

Read this list of the breakfast foods that you should be avoiding...

1. Flavored Coffee Creamer

These are made with hydrogenation oils such as trans fatty acid, refined sugars. Artificial sweeteners are also packed into these creamers.

The sad thing is, with the increasing consumption of trans fatty acids, you’re just asking for strokes, heart attacks, and poor cholesterol levels.

Do you know that a 16-ounce mocha has eight teaspoons of sugar! Starting the day with that much sugar can lead to dramatic mid-morning crashes.

If you enjoy having a hot beverage in the morning, you could try tea with coconut milk. There are many different flavors of tea to satisfy your pallet.

2. Sugary/Colorful Kids Cereals

Who wouldn’t be enamored by the bright boxes with cartoon characters on the front?

They’re at perfect eye-level on the grocery store shelves.

Recently in Europe, the food coloring in these cereals have been banned. The FDA has even made a connection between the coloring and hyperactivity.

3. Bagels

Bagels are full of gluten, and once you add the cream cheese, which is calorie-dense and the trans fatty acid-dense, you’ll be sure to increase the inflammation in your body.

If you find one of these bagels in the health section of your supermarket, I still would not recommend them.

Next time they show up at the office, pass them up.

4. Adult “Healthy” Cereal

These "supposedly-healthy" cereals can be just as bad for you as regular ones.

Whole grain promises on cereal boxes may be disguising the facts that the food is high in refined sugar, sodium, and empty calories, according to a study from Harvard University.

The cereal said to have a ratio of twice as much protein and fiber to carbs.

So for a cereal with 20 g of carbs, it should have at least a combination of 40 g of protein and fiber.

5. Juice

Those juices that say they are 100% juice may seem reasonable to you. But unfortunately, they're more deceitful than you think.

There are low in healthy fibers and are often packed with more natural sugars than soda!

The sugar that’s in the juice implies that one, maybe two glasses can produce a mid-morning sugar crash just like donuts could.

Do this instead, try eating a whole piece of fresh fruit at breakfast. That way, the effects of the sugar you’re eating are less severe due to the intake of healthy fiber.

This article hopefully shows you that most conventional breakfast foods aren’t the best for you.

Get rid of the foods in your home that aren’t good for you; try something good for you instead.

Here's to our Journey,