breakfast cereals

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<I always hated all dry cereals so I cheered when I found out how lousy they

are for you. Notice the healthfood stores just keep getting more of them,

and the price makes your heart stop.>

Breakfast cereal, whether from the HFS or the grocery store, has got to be

the most expensive breakfast possible considering how little nutrition one

gets from it alone... most of the nutrition in a bowl of cereal is from the

milk, not the cereal. One might better just drink more milk than eat

cereal.

Also, something else to consider, unless the HFS cereals consist of only

rolled grain like oatmeal, it's been extruded. As Sally Fallon says in her

long but very interesting article, DIRTY SECRETS OF THE FOOD PROCESSING

INDUSTRY:

" These cereals are produced by a process called extrusion. They take the

grains from the farmer, pay them a pittance for them, make the grains into a

slurry and put them in a tank, a machine called an extruder. The grains are

forced out of a little hole at high temperature and pressure and shaped into

little o's and flakes and shredded wheat and so forth, or puffed up. A blade

slices off each little flake which is carried past a nozzle and sprayed with

a coating of oil and sugar to seal off the cereal from the ravages of milk

and to give it crunch.

" Stitt has written about the extrusion process used for these cereals

which treats every grain with very high heat and high pressure and destroys

much of the nutrients in the grains. It destroys the fatty acids; it even

destroys the chemical vitamins that are added. The amino acids are rendered

very toxic by this process. The amino acid lysine, a crucial nutrient, is

especially ravaged by extrusion. This is how all the boxed cereals are made,

even the ones in the health food stores. They are all made in the same way

and mostly in the same factories. All dry cereals that come in boxes are

extruded cereals. "

The section on breakfast cereals goes on to report rat experiments on the

various negative effects of cereal, like one set of rats that ate the

cardboard box the cereal came in as living longer than those that ate cereal

alone. On the basis of that article, I've switched my dairy goats to the

traditional COB mix of a century ago, that is whole corn, oats and barley,

with no soy. It's more expensive because barley is hard to find anymore, but

worth it.

The article also discusses store milk, commercial orange juice, MSG and

powdered milk, among other things. If you haven't yet read this article, I

highly recommend you do so:

http://www.consumerhealth.org/articles/display.cfm?ID=20011005222648

hth,