The Hourglass Diet high fibre supplement is designed to stimulate normal, healthy digestive function.
When it comes to breakfast there is a good opportunity to give your body a healthy start to the day.
You could have a traditional cooked breakfast, particularly one that includes some of last night’s left overs.
If it’s good enough for tea it’s good enough for breakfast.
Most people can’t be bothered preparing a decent sit-down cooked breakfast that includes cooked vegetables and some protein so let’s put that to one side – except to say that when I was growing up, the everyone-sitting-down-breakfast was important family time.
On the other hand you could have a cereal and fruit-based breakfast. We’re sort of conditioned to do that. The only problem is that the ‘kellogification’ of our diets has led us to believe that eating a bowl full of small, irregular shaped wheat biscuits it the best way to do this.
For starters, my mail tells me we need to eat less wheat flour, plus we need to avoid those biscuits that are full of sugar.
Breakfast Food Sugar Content League Table
| Product | Manufacturer | Gms of sugar per 100g |
| Wheaties | Uncle Toby’s | 1 |
| Vita Brits | Uncle Toby’s | 2 |
| Wheat Bix | Sanitarium | 3 |
| Whole-Wheat biscuits | Farmland | 3 |
| Corn Flakes | Kellogg’s | 8 |
| Puffed Wheat | Sanitarium | 9 |
| Rice Bubbles | Kellogg’s | 9 |
| Guardian | Kellogg’s | 12 |
| Special K | Kellogg’s | 15 |
| Special K Red | Kellogg’s | 15 |
| Tropicana | Weight Watchers | 15 |
| Just Right Just Grains | Kellogg’s | 16 |
| Ultra Bran Soy & Linseed | Vogel’s | 16 |
| Natural Swiss Muesli | Uncle Toby’s (Nestle) | 17 |
| Fruit & Fibre | Weight Watchers | 17 |
| Sustain | Kellogg’s | 20 |
| Healthwise for bowel | Uncle Toby’s (Nestle) | 21 |
| Weetbix Honey Crunch | Sanitarium | 22 |
| All-Bran Fruit and Oats | Kellogg’s | 22 |
| Sultana Bran | Kellogg’s | 23 |
| Honey Wheats | Sanitarium | 25 |
| Fibre Plus | Uncle Toby’s | 26 |
| Honey Crunch Cornflakes | Coles | 27 |
| Crunchy Oat Bran With Fruit | Uncle Toby’s (Nestle) | 28 |
| Milo | Nestles | 31 |
| Just Right Original | Kellogg’s | 31 |
| Just Right Original | Kellogg’s | 31 |
| Crunchy Nut Cornflakes | Kellogg’s | 32 |
| Cocoa Crispix | Kellogg’s | 32 |
| Nutri-Grain | Kellogg’s | 32 |
| Coco Pops | Kellogg’s | 37 |
| Nesquik | Nestles | 38 |
| Frosties | Kellogg’s | 41 |
| Froot Loops | Kellogg’s | 42 |
| Coco Puffs | Kelloggs | 53 |
| Honey Smacks | Kellogg’s | 57 |
The dieticians of this world keep telling us we need to eat more grains, ‘grains’ generally being code for ‘wheat flour’. What you want is the real deal, a real grain, a genuine cereal. And what better cereal is there for breakfast than plain, raw, rolled oats?
So I recommend raw rolled oats form the basis of your breakfast.
But wait, there’s more
Why not add some high fibre supplement to it:
- Psyllium husk
- Raw oat bran
- Flaxseed
- Lecithin
Go to your local health food shop, buy the ingredients and mix them together to form your own special high fibre mix. Store it in an airtight jar and put a few spoonfuls on your cereal.
What the high fibre supplement is going to do is loosen your bowel. Constipation is not caused by a lack of Laxettes and hemroids are definitely not caused by a lack of Anusol.
What you’re lacking is fibre – and this breakfast is going to give you fibre in spades.
And even more!
Eating raw rolled oats on its own is a bit like eating chooks food or chaff. It needs to be loosened up with fruit and juice. – which makes it highly palatable.
My greatest encouragement is for you to make a blended fruit and vegetable slurry and poor it over the oats. If you don’t like the word ‘slurry’ call it a ‘health shake’.
To learn more about how you can eat to nourish the cells of your body, maintain an ideal weight and keep your bowel healthy, click on the book cover below.
