Fruit salad for breakfast
by LIsa
Answer: Hi Lisa, This is a great question and a great example of how all the conflicting health information currently available can be confusing and distracting. The most important aspect of creating health for yourself and maintaining a healthy body weight is developing a good relationship with your body. As you learn how to pay close attention to what works for your body new or conflicting information from the media or coworkers will be less relevant for you. So, I guess our question back to you would be...Is fruit in the morning working for you? Are you successfully maintaining a healthy weight? Are you satisfied after your breakfast and experience consistent energy throughout the morning? These are important questions to ask yourself and consider. From our perspective, natural fresh fruit can make a great healthy breakfast for some people. Some people may need some protein and/or whole grains to provide more consistent energy throughout the morning and avoid the blood sugar ups and downs. What your co-worker was most likely referring to is the rise in blood sugar that can happen after eating just fruit. While your blood sugar is elevated you are unable to loose weight. But the natural sugars and fiber in fruit provides only a gentle rise in blood sugar for most people. If incorporated into a healthy natural diet (free from refined sugar and processed foods) fresh fruit in the morning should pose no issues. Also, staying with natural foods as much as possible is a key factor in general health, weight loss and weight maintenance. An important, and often overlooked, phenomenon is that when you eat artificial and/or denatured foods your body responds by stashing these new toxins in fat cells. Both the regular and light versions of Activia yogurt contain unnatural ingredients including sugar, modified food starch, fructose, aspartame, acesulfame, etc. If you want yogurt with your fruit we recommend choosing an all natural organic plain yogurt made from just organic milk and bacterial cultures. If you need to sweeten it a little for flavor you can add a little natural honey or maple syrup. We realize that this goes against convention and marketing a bit, but it is a significant factor in health, weight loss and weight management. Another great breakfast option for weight loss and management are Green Smoothies. They're a delicious and nutritious way of getting lots of fruit, greens and superfoods in in the morning. Try out our Green Smoothie Recipes to add a great new weight maintenance trick to your morning routine.
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