Paleo-Cereal: Finally a Healthy Breakfast in a Bowl – by Dr. Nick Araza

That’s a Bowl Full of Goodness, if I’ve ever seen one!!

While the countless commercials may have been right in that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, they were dead wrong about what to eat.  Pretty much all of the commercials about what to eat for breakfast say “part of a complete breakfast” and I would agree if their cereals and yogurts were the part of the breakfast you throw away before eating something healthy.  That’s right, I know that many of you are coming to grips with the fact that we humans did not evolve with grains or pasteurized dairy in our diet, and that when consumed as any part of our diet there are pretty serious consequences in the long run (I always say “long run” because a bowl of frosted or unfrosted cereal will not kill you, just as 1 cigarette won’t kill you; it is our cumulative bad HABITS that kill 70% of us in this country).

A great option for breakfast is something called PaleoCereal, which is only ½ true to the name because there are no cereal grains whatsoever, nor is there any milk.  What we have is a bunch of fresh fruit and nuts with ground flax, covered in almond milk.  This seems to satisfy our current, odd behavioral desire to eat something cold, sweet and crunchy for breakfast, while not compromising our quality of life or our longevity in the long run.  Can anybody say “BONUS?!”

Here it is in video form:   

For more exact recipe check out Beautifully Strong Project dated February 23, 2010.

For those of you unfamiliar with the term “Paleo,” it stems from a period of time (Paleolithic era) before the advent of agriculture ,ranging from roughly 2.5 million years to as recent as 10,000 years.  This time was characterized as old stone age where all humans lived as hunters and gatherers.

Eat 4 Health (come on, really nurture each of your 100 trillion cells that make up your amazing body),

-Dr. Nicholas Araza DC CCWP CSCS