US Government Pleased that Children get Their Nutrition from Cold Cereal Each Morning
Dr Bob the Health Builder
The government has stated in various ways that they are please that children get their nutrition from cold cereal, and cold milk each morning. Unfortunately nothing could be more wrong than spreading this untruth to a gullible public.
Mr. Kellogg was the person that invented cold cereal - flakes, Os, stars, shredded something. or nuts - many years ago. The process evolved by taking grains and stripping all the nutrients from it, making a slurry, adding chemically manufactured vitamins (which are useless) and trace minerals that are metallic and almost non-absorbable in human beings.
The process of manufacturing involves extrusion. The slurry is forced through an orifice at high temperature and high pressure. The temperature and pressure destroys every nutrient from the grain and even the chemical vitamins and the trace minerals. Unfortunately this manufactured product has sugar added to a lot of it and then fed to our children with milk (I will get to this topic in a few more paragraphs).
The latest commercials are promoting whole grains used in these cold cereals as if that is an improvement (whole grains are better than the striped down no nutrition). The problem is that the extrusion process still leaves zero nutrition in the finished product
As for all the souls that believe in organic cereals (I am very much in favor of organic products as compared to the chemical kinds), you will be disappointed that extrusion still destroys all nutrition, even in organic grains.
The sad part of this cereal dilemma is that I have not mentioned another important part of grain growing. Unless a grain is referred to as organic - without herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides - it has been grown with the mentioned chemicals. Herbicides and pesticides cause cancer.
Another consideration in this all American breakfast of cold cereal is the milk.
What you buy in the store is not milk in the true sense. Milk is produced by cows that are confined in small areas (as opposed to the great outdoors of green pastures) and fed concentrates - alfalfa, grass hay, grains (corn is common and the farmer buys the cheapest available which is Genetically Engineered to have less nutrition and extra herbicides and the ever present pesticides), and other supplements.
People that produce and process milk are not too worried about cleanliness as their solution is pasteurization. In fact bacteria have gotten so bad that they have to raise the temperature of pasteurization beyond the 161 degrees. There are companies that are raising the temperature to 212 + degrees. This higher temperature not only destroys the bad bacteria, but it destroys every bit of nutrition in the milk.
We need essential beneficial fatty acids in our bodies and milk used to be a good source of the fatty acids but as soon as grains were added to cow's diets the beneficial fatty acids disappeared.
Eat organic oats and porridges with butter and/or cream.
When you buy milk at least purchase organic. The best is Organic Valley. Also buy organic butter from this same company.
The best milk to buy is non-pasteurized, non-homogenized. Milk has natural antibacterial qualities that keep bacteria from growing. When produced by healthy farmers there is nothing to worry about. It is good to eat healthy, but that is not processed milk, and cold cereal.
References
www.westonaprice.org and www.ppnf.org
In good health,
Dr Bob the Health Builder www.drbobsSoYouWantTo.com www.drbobthehealthbuilder.com www.wealthyhealthywise.net
About the Author Dr Bob the Health Builder
Robert D Bard, OD, FAAO
I attended West Virginia University and graduated from Pennsylvania College of Optometry with a Bachelor of Science degree and a Doctor of Optometry degree.
As a health professional I was always interested in disease prevention but found the medical model - drug companies and doctors - unacceptable. The medical model towards disease is that they want us - the people - to contract disease and
