Milk and Cereal — Your best breakfast

A month ago, I posted an article about getting your calcium intake each day. I mentioned that Total is one breakfast cereal that helps you meet your daily calcium requirements. A recent research study (published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, November 2006) shows that eating breakfast cereal with milk can increase your calcium intake to about 450 milligrams a day (or about 40-45% of your daily calcium need).

Granted, most of the calcium that you ingest in the morning is from the milk added to the cereal (unless you eat cereal that is calcium-fortified). But, if you have 10 minutes in the morning, instead of having toast, think about that bowl of cereal!

As for the milk, choose low fat (1%) or nonfat (skim) milk to lower your fat intake each day while still getting your calcium. And, better yet, make sure that your child starts off with that bowl of cereal and milk in the morning–most female teenagers (some studies suggest over 80%) do NOT meet their calcium needs each day, putting them at greater risk for osteoporosis later in life.

So eat your milk and cereal!

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