I am a charts, graphs and diagrams kind of gal.
I love the visual representation of data which is one reason why I was so attracted to Economics as my college major. Those of you who have taken Economics know what I’m talking about here – charts, graphs and diagrams galore!
Because of my personal predilection for pictorial data, I really am enjoying this new trend toward colorful Infographics.
The latest infographic that really grabbed my attention was this one below that summarized all this neat information about the most important meal of the day – breakfast.
Check out this really cool infographic and share in the comments section which factoid or factoids jumped out most at you.
My personal fave is that 50% of people give more thought to their outfit for the day than their breakfast. No wonder we have such a health crisis in this country!
Another keeper is that folks who skip breakfast have more carb cravings later in the day. Beware that 3pm Snickers attack if you didn’t take the time for a decent breakfast my friends!
Want your kids to do well in school? Ensuring they don’t go out the door without a decent breakfast is one of the most practical things you can do every day. Students who eat breakfast have better grades and are more likely to get that diploma!
Hint: The Standard American Breakfast of a bowl of cold breakfast cereal topped with skim milk and a glass of store OJ is not your best choice. For some healthy ideas based on how Traditional Cultures started their day, check out this listing of breakfast recipes.
Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
Yeah, the nonfat dairy blurb is stupid, but overall, I thought the infographic was just lovely and positive which is why I posted it.
breakfast is = break – fast get it?? your body eliminates waste and detoxes it self while you are sleeping, breakfast should not be eaten until your body finishes doing its thing
Someone mentioned Larabars. Here’s an excerpt from NaturalNews:
Larabar is one such brand whose snack bars consisting of very minimal ingredients (primarily nuts and dried fruits) have been a favorite of the natural food crowd for years. While their ingredients are not certified organic, Larabar does boast on its product labels that their ingredients are non-GMO. But how are consumers supposed to take comfort in Larabar’s non-GMO ingredients when General Mills, the company that owns Larabar, is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to defeat proposition 37, the GMO labeling initiative, in California?
http://www.naturalnews.com/036975_Larabar_recipes_boycott.html#ixzz24sW6GgNn
Here’s a link to get the recipe to make your own:
http://www.naturalnews.com/036975_Larabar_recipes_boycott.html
The larabar is one of those good rare products that is for the very most part nutritionally sound – Their product is simply mixed ingredients without baking – which would deminish the nutrient value.
It’s always a tough call when there is politics involved as you mentioned with the gmo issue. I have found that so many companies are unwittingly linked to a giant mothership company which has other agendas.
BTW the recipe link cooks their product.
Oliver, I don’t mean to by skeptical, but your posts are the only place I’ve ever seen anyone posit that there’s no protein in what the world commonly views as protein. (Clearly, I know nothing about paleo eating if that’s where you’re coming from.) Can you please provide us with some links to other writers/sites that confirm this? Even if it’s unpopular with the masses, there would have to be significant information about this out there. If it’s correct, that is.
thanks.
Melinda, You have every right to be skeptical. I could be a charlatan whose hidden agenda is to eventually lure you into buying some holistic supplements… ïŠ My nick name as well is “Charlie cynic”. Being skeptical is good and wise defense mechanism; there is so much crazy data and info out there that pertains to one’s health, how would one know what to think.
You are smart however to not shy away from hearing something different or new — this is how we progress as a peoples.
I am not of the paleo diet per say — I don’t really know much about — I don’t really care to as well. What I do know about the diet is that it is somewhat inconsistent with the actual period in history — they were not all sitting around a barbecue eating roast beast — in addition some of the things on their diet list weren’t harvested till many moons later — we only started harvesting corn, wheat, rice, beans etc in the last 7 to 11,000 years.
But the reason I don’t concern myself with that diet or others is because it is simply for me, all about eating only unadulterated nutrients if you want to get real nutrients in your body. My love of pasta and burgers has only to do with taste, flavor and texture — those things I grew up on — those habits, needs, are hard to break — I don’t do the burger often, I’m just sayin.
Most of the reason what I know from a chemical standpoint about molecular damage/nutrient damage is not popular because as I mentioned before, cash is king. There is an old black and white movie about a man who invented a fabric that couldn’t be soiled or worn down or burned etc. He tried to market it but was blacklisted, blackballed, ostracized from so many industries — cleaners etc.
We have light bulbs that can run for years, and batteries. Roach spray is diluted, the roaches built up immunities and you by more product.
I written about “What if” — what if government deemed sugar illegal ( it is worse than booze, pot and cocaine). If it were no longer sold in the US — that would set back some major companies in this country. Pepsi and coke could handle that financially — I am worried about the Dominican Republic whose main crop is sugar cane.
The egg industry and beef and wheat industry don’t care to tell you the science that they know. Wheat farmers, who aren’t scientists have it tough already — the up side for them however is that wheat can be converted to fuel now so all won’t be lost..
I spoke with a member of the USDA and he sent me a PDF regarding some tests they did to see if cereal and other baked products actually had the nutrients in them they put on their labels. His PDf led me to the American Chemists Society — on their site — if you typed in their search “cooked food” you will see over 7000 studies on all types of food, from beans to wheat to soy etc. In each and every test/study there was some molecular change done to the food in question. They even found new pathogens, toxic and carcinogenic elements created by the cooking.
The problem is — they never took those tests to the public. The site is free but there is no “news report at eleven”. They obviously didn’t tell the cereal folk that they found no protein content in their cereals. Maybe they did tell them, but the FDA didn’t enforce the proper labeling laws.
What I am trying to do with a number of lay folk and chemists is create a new consumer manual, similar to the ones we have for cars or dishwashers etc. wherein new tests are done, with the latest equipment etc.
More importantly, the charts need to be dumbed down so the average jane and joe can read and understand them. If you do go online to the American chemist’s website, when you access those tests, they are all in science speak. One can recognize “no protein found after this or that temp”, or “vitamin c was no longer retained” but that is only 2 percent of the heady jargon and confusing charts and graphs.
Oliver
Love all the pictures! They are awesome, then the recommendation of Non Fat Dairy killed it!! Full FAT please 🙂
Body Wise Food Smart We are all unique, so it is best not to make arbitrary recommendations. However, I am a huge fan of breakfast for myself and clients. If someone is not a big breakfast eater (and they don’t drink coffee) then I recommend something very light but encourage them to have at least something. A bowl of fruit, a glass of milk, fresh juice…etc. I have found that those who are not hungry in the AM are usually those with high-carb needs and therefore do better with fresh fruit, veggies, or raw dairy for breakfast….
Sometime’s I can’t wait to get up just to have breakfast. Everyone is different.
Breakfast does the most damage out of all the meals in the day. Want to be lean and healthy, skip it….
http://www.schwarzenegger.com/fitness/post/carb-back-loading-step-1-breakfast
This question has nothing to do with the subject but I don’t know where I should post it. Here goes: does anyone here know about a natural way to cure adenoids in babies who snore during the night (breathe with open mouth) and who show difficulty in breathing during the day (but they have no mucus in their nose)? Somehow I cannot edit this post so sorry for sny possible mistake. Thank you in advance!
Oliver
What are your thoughts on the soft boiled egg yolk that Weston Price suggests parents to give to their babies? The proteins in those eggs are destroyed after boiling (even after 3,5 minutes) isn’t that correct? Thank you 🙂
Weston Price had great many insights – he was right to link poor dental health with diet – I say the issue is two fold; malnutirition’s first signs can, in many cases be gum disease and two, the processed (including cooked, which is the ultimate processing) doesn;t breakdown as it should so the crap hangs around your teeh and gums etc.
My bent is always about nutrient damage – nutrient damage from a molecular perpsective – what things in the natural environment can do damage to the many nutrient molecules – before they are ingested,
Weston Price didn’t have the analytical tools to do anytype of subcellualr analysis. Microscopes etc back then could see and study cells and tissue, but proteins, and the even smaller amino acids just couldn’t be analized. Today we have Mass spectrometry and such and still that is a delicate process that identifies damaged peptides etc.
Price was not able to know if in fact a protein molecule was damaged or not. Today we can tell you that when you subject most common proteins (as opposed to extremophiles – things that can exist in high temp regions like lava pits etc) to 212 degrees (boiling temp) the egg proteins are indeed rendered useless.
One also has to understand that an egg is essentially a dead embryo – things that are dead, start to decay, to breakdown, to bio degrade – all on their own. Eggs, like meat is in decay mode as soon as it dies. When a cow dies, just like humans, the body starts to break down – enzymes set up and start breakdown the good proteins and other nutrients – this process is one of the first stages of decay – so that meat is already nutritionally challenged by time it gets to your butcher or grocer, and then gets to your home or restaurant, and then, what ever nutrient value might remain, we do that in with marinating and finally cooking.
that is my prob now, I never eat breakfast, a glass of milk will do for me…