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| No, that is not my baby photo. I was never that neat. |
The American breakfast for children is milk (fat) on worthless cereal flakes or candy in the form of cereal. Add sugar anyway. For extra nutrition (?) a glass of orange juice, which is little more than sugar water. Worse yet is Paul Newman's orange drink, which starts out with high fructose corn sugar.
A hefty breakfast would be bacon (fat) and eggs (fat) with white toast (like eating cake) or cinnamon toast with sugar on it.
Everything above is still considered a great breakfast and is most likely rare. Everything above moves fat into the body where it accumulates and stays. Sugar turns instantly into sugar in the bloodstream. Corn flakes and white bread take another step to become blood sugar.
The nutrition levels in those foods do not justify the harm done to balanced nutrition. People need to flip the whole food chart and make fats, sugars, and animal proteins rare (not extinct). Flipping means providing for lots of leafy greens, a rainbow of vegetables, lots of whole fruit, and nuts.
Giraffes and buffalos are strict vegetarians, but they grow strong bones and big muscles. Milk is provided for the young but not after weaning.
The Big Lie - Incomplete Protein
The meat-milk-egg-cheese industry has promoted the idea that concentrating on vegetables will create feeble kids trying to grow on incomplete plant proteins.
In fact, the body puts together the proteins needed in a variety of plants and also recycles internal cells to complete proteins during the process of digestion in the intestine (a nice rhyme, no?).
I am not a vegetarian. I do not subscribe to any patented diet, because those named diets are marketed to fail. Why? That is so new versions can be sold to the people who lost 40 pounds only to gain 50 back.
A normal breakfast for me is one or two huge bowls of spinach, plus one or two large apples.
A normal lunch is a sauce pan with a mix of vegetables warmed up.
Mixed beans are useful when leaves are not enough.
Supper might be one or the other, or some chicken and one biscuit when the Military Gardening Group gathers for pour-over coffee and food. During this transition I went from two pieces of chicken and two biscuits to one of each. Lots of vegetables and fruits mean that overly large portions are not wanted or enjoyed.
I need to avoid sugar and salt treats, because my pancreas is not keen about working so hard. Salt pushes up my blood pressure, which seems unwise and unnecessary.
Desserts and candy are almost completely out the window, once again because greens, beans, fruit, and nuts are satisfyingly delicious.
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