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An estimated 15 million Americans have diabetes, and the number is rising, in large part became of the rise in obesity rates. The more overweight you are, the higher your [...]

Sorting Out The Cereals As shoppers wander down the cereal aisle, cross-eyed from reading the tiny print, many yearn for a simple answer to a simple question: Which cereal is [...]

Regular consumption of fortified grain products has been found to play an essential role in higher dietary folate intakes. This is important, considering the role that folic acid plays in […]

Cereal has become an important part of breakfast meals due to their health aspects. Among the important things about cereals are that they have bran, low fat, and are fortified with vitamins and minerals., Doughnuts, danish, croissants, eggs, bacon sausage, bagels, biscuits, muffins, cereal bars, pancakes, waffles. When it comes to a healthy breakfast, a good cereal beats them all hands down. What gives [...]

Cereal prices rose 90 percent between 1983 and 1994 double the 45 percent increase in food prices in general. It had gotten to the point that breakfast cereal often cost [...]

A deep frost has descended on the cereal aisle, and it is deepening still. Along with Frosted Mini-Wheats, Frosted Krispies, Frosted Wheat Bites, Frosted Bran and, of course, Frosted Flakes [...]

Cold cereal is the most popular breakfast food in America -- and usually a good choice, since most cereals, served with skim or low-fat milk, are nutritious and low in [...]

SKIPPING BREAKFAST IS BAD Results of a study by the American Health Foundation assessing breakfast and snacking habits of 530 middle school and high school students indicate that children who [...]

High-fiber Breakfast Can Stave Off Hunger Cruising down the aisles of a grocery store, one is bombarded with evidence of the current infatuation with fiber. Some of this enthusiasm seems [...]

Can you tell a food from a drug? Don't be too sure You might call it the battle of Battle Creek, Michigan, although shots have been fired from as far […]

Tips for choosing your breakfast cereal More than 40 percent of the respondents in a nationwide survey reported recently that they had cereal for breakfast, making it by far the […]

Making sense out of muffin mania Which do you think makes a more healthful breakfast: a donut or a muffin? If you said a muffin, you're not alone. In an […]

Desperately Making Health Claims What could be wrong with oatmeal, orange juice, a low-sugar cereal, and a high-fiber bread? It's not the foods, but the ads for these products that [...]

Not surprisingly, some of the most common problems in infancy involve habits related to eating and sleeping, but these subjects tend not to be the focus of medical studies. It […]

Food firms switch fats Cookies, crackers, and cereals are getting their oil changed. Thirteen major food manufacturers have announced that they will be reformulating many of their products without coconut, […]