Most American breakfast is full of sugar, starch, cholesterol and cooking grease. This comes from borrowing European cooking and utilizing the most abundant resources in America. Fried eggs, omelettes, french toast, buttered toast, buttered muffins and biscuits, pancakes, waffles, bacon, fried potatoes, hashbrowns- all foods that are full of fat and grease that lead to high cholesterol and increase risk of a heartattack among other health problems. Foods made of white flour and starch are nutritionally useless empty carbohydrates that decrease long term energy, and are further covered with fat and sugar as toppings. Cereals are high in processed or refined grains that are the nutritional equivalent of white sugar. Food coloring and preservatives don't help. Using fruits as a substitute for breakfast means a sugar spike will give quick energy but not long term energy to last through the day. Nearly all traditional American breakfasts are a bad choice, leading to weight gain, heart problems, and diabetes.
The American breakfast could just as easily consist of the same thing as lunch or dinner and would be more nutritionally sound. Some countries just have a light salad for breakfast.
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Anonymous2006-08-28 20:40
But it tastes soooooo good.
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Anonymous2006-08-28 20:55
when i lived in austria my host family had deli meats and bread and cheese and such for breakfast, like a sandwich in the morning, it was fine by me instead of heart attack on a plate american food
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Anonymous2006-08-30 4:06
When I wake up I usually have a cup of green tea.
If I haven't been shopping in a while I don't really eat anything.
But if I have something at all it's usally fruit, maybe a slice or two of bread with butter(STFU if butter is unhealthy, it tastes good).
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Anonymous2006-08-30 5:45
Butter is fine in moderation. All foods are fine in moderation.
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Anonymous2006-09-01 18:14
#5 IS A NOOB BUTTER IS BAD 4 U
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Anonymous2006-09-01 19:55
>>3
Yes, because a bowl of cheerios is much worse than a bunch of meat.
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Anonymous2006-09-01 23:38
Cereal is made of refined grains that do not retain most of their nutritional value. Some call refined cereal nutritionally worthless, the eqivelant of table sugar. Adding a couple vitamins to this does not make it more nutritious. Some cereals use hydrogenated oils, preservatives, food coloring, and excess sugars. Originally cereals were meant to be eaten hot and had full grains and fiber without being so heavily refined and processed.
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Anonymous2006-09-03 15:00
@OP rofl what was the country in wich they eat salad for breakfast?
and no i'm not american, and bread&butter IS tasty.
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Beefeater2006-09-05 23:09
I usually have some sort of meat, a couple eggs, fruit, and a slice of bread for breakfast. I limit my meat item to 16 oz. I NEVER eat cereal. I once consumed a 72 oz. steak (it was free if someone could eat it). I would do it again if I could.
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Anonymous2006-09-06 1:30
Stupid morons.
In the US, we have something mandated by the government called Nutrition Facts. A consistent panel that displays information about the food inside the container.
There's more fat in a PBJ than a baloney and cheese sandwich.
There's an entire day's allowance of... well, everything that's good for you in a bowl of Multigrain Cheerios.
French toast is healthier for you than lean ham.
My daily breakfast is a bowl of Multigrain Cheerios, with vitamin-D enriched 2% milk.
About once every two years, I go nuts and have french toast with sausage and a muffin, but that's a LOT of food, and keeps me going well into late afternoon.
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Anonymous2006-09-06 13:10
Honey Nut Cheerios is made with at least three different forms of sugar: sugar, honey and brown sugar syrup- four if you count the modified corn starch. Many cereals, even those we think of as healthful, like Wheaties, are made with partially hydrogenated oils. And while original Cheerios doesn't have trans fats, Multi-Grain Cheerios, which many people buy thinking, mistakenly, that they're a more healthful alternative, do. Kiddie cereals, unfortunately, are nearly all hydrogenated. The major national brands of peanut butter are all hydrogenated.
Both hydrogenated oils and homogenized milkfats are artificial fats that have been created for the convenience of food manufacturers and dairy product producers. These are artificial compounds that do not belong in the human body, and when consumed they wreak havoc with your cardiovascular health. By homogenizing the milkfats, they stay in suspension and the milk looks more delicious to consumers.
If you drink non homogenized fat free milk, you have nothing to worry about. However if you drink even two percent, odds are, the milk is homogenized. Homogenization releases an enzyme that attacks your arteries. When arteries are pitted by this enzyme, the so called "bad" cholesterol tries to repair the pits by laying down patches in the holes, trying to save your life and stop you from bleeding to death internally. Studies of heavy milk drinkers who are in high school show arteries with walls covered by cholesterol and plaque. Researchers said that the arteries of these students compared easily to those of people in their sixties.
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captainwtf!89562006-09-06 18:53
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Anonymous2006-09-06 19:43
>>12
lol, >>11 is going to die. Also, any milk with more fat than skim is thick and disgusting.
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Anonymous2006-09-06 20:52
anything american is bad for you
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Anonymous2006-09-07 1:10
any milk with less fat than full cream is thin and flavourless
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Anonymous2006-09-07 10:03
Still no info form op about wich country eats salad for breakfast... gg
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do you know the biggest reason why you need breakfast? the brain. the brain requires nourishment after spending a few hours repairing the body and itself (assuming you got adequate sleep during the night). If you haven't consumed any nourishment after all that work done, you will suffer the consequences such as reduced ability to concentrate, reduced ability to learn, and a general lethargic feeling.
Damn, that explains me perfectly. However, I haven't eaten breakfast in almost a year. Wouldn't I notice more severe consequences than a few minor slip in concentration?
Musli or porridge is the way. I'm a freak so I can eat it dry, but
a little milk wont hurt you (musli+fruit smoothie is good too).
Unrefined oats are good for you and such. Blueberrys added to porridge is love
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Anonymous2006-09-13 21:43
Sausage, bacon, ground beef patties, many eggs, toast with thick butter, pancakes.
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Anonymous2006-09-14 21:01
Because ALL Americans have the same kind of food for breakfast, right.
I don't really eat 'breakfast food' for breakfast, sometimes on weekends or when I'm craving it, but normally I just eat the same stuff I'll eat the rest of the day. I do have cereal sometimes, but as a snack--same for soda or really anything to drink other than water or skim milk, they're occasional snacks only.
But kids, don't believe everything you read, especially not when it concerns your nutrition and health, and especially not on 4chan for God's sake. Before you take some of the stuff touted here as 'fact' go fucking read up on it yourself.