“If you eat a breakfast of refined cereal and skim milk,” Dr. Mozaffarian said, “your blood sugar<br />is going to crash a few hours later, and you will be hungrier and eat more for lunch.”<br />Do you have a health question?<br />With Cheerios and other processed cereals, “you basically have rapidly digested sugar mixed with bran<br />and germ,” said Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, dean of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.<br />Both oatmeal and Cheerios are whole grains, which puts them ahead of cereals like Corn Flakes<br />and Special K, in which the bran and germ have been removed, Dr. Mozaffarian said.<br />As a practical rule-of-thumb, Dr. Mozaffarian suggests using the total carbohydrate-to-fiber ratio to find more healthful<br />breakfast foods – aiming for a ratio of less than 10 to 1, which is comparable to the ratio in whole wheat flour.<br />One 2013 study, for instance, found that people who ate oatmeal felt fuller<br />and had better appetite control than those who ate the same number of calories of processed cereal.<br />Ask Well: Choosing the Right Grain for Your Morning -<br />Reader Question • 1502 votes<br />Oatmeal, particularly the slow-cooked kind, is generally healthier than Cheerios.
