A Better Breakfast “Cereal”

My clients are always asking me what I eat for breakfast. My breakfasts are not complicated. I like easy options that fill me up and give me energy to do my work.

It’s Not Actually Cereal

One of my absolute favorite and easiest breakfasts is my fruit and nut bowl. I cut up one small apple, and add blueberries, raspberries, a handful of almonds,  some walnuts, pumpkin seeds, chia seeds, ground flax seeds, hemp seeds, or some combination of these options. I top it all off with a sprinkle of cinnamon and some almond milk. It’s not all or nothing. Sometimes I don’t have all the ingredients, so I use what I do have. That’s the nice thing about this breakfast. It requires no cooking, so it’s the fastest breakfast I can make in a hurry.

Live Well With Living Food

Here’s why I love it so much. Besides being easy and fast, it is packed with fiber from all the ingredients; protein from the nuts and seeds; it has healthy Omega-3 fatty acids from the walnuts, chia and flax seeds; the fruits are low glycemic (so they won’t spike your blood sugar), the cinnamon also works to control blood sugar, and they are full of antioxidants and phytonutrients. In addition to all of that (as if that wasn’t good reason enough), everything is raw so all of the enzymes in the food are intact. This is a LIVING breakfast. On my enzyme page (on my website) I explain the benefits of raw food and the enzymes in the food.

Get a Load of Those Micronutrients!

Let’s talk about antioxidants and phytonutrients for a moment. These are some of the most parts of the foods we eat. Antioxidants help us lower inflammation in our body. Oxidants can come from toxins in our environment (air, water), pesticides on our food, or internally from normal metabolic processes. Oxidants cause oxidation in the body. We all know what oxidation is because we have seen an apple rot and a car rust. Oxidation in the body is the same process and it creates inflammation and damages tissues. When enough damage has occurred that tissue or organ stops working properly. Antioxidants work against all of these providing us with protection against that “rusting” effect.

Phytonutrients protect us in another way. Phytonutrients help fight disease. Phytonutrients speak directly to our cells turning on or off pathways that lead to health or disease. Phytonutrients are those antioxidants you were reading about above. Another good reason to eat them is that phytonutrients work better together and with other nutrients too. Real team players!

This one meal is loaded with phytonutrients such as flavonoids, phenolic acids, stilbenes, and terpenes which support the body’s natural defense mechanisms, help repair damaged DNA, regulate hormone production, inhibit inflammation, and increase activity of cancer-fighting enzymes and prevents cancer growth. But it’s not just anti-cancer, it’s anti every disease that is caused by inflammation – heart disease, diabetes, autoimmune, etc…..

So next time you are looking for a healthy, easy, fast, and delicious breakfast, give this a try. You won’t be disappointed!