Oatmeal - Healthy Breakfast

Oatmeal - healthy low-cal breakfast alterantive to dough nuts

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and what a better way to get your nutrients than through a heart healthy bowl of oatmeal. Just half a cup of oatmeal offers five grams of heart healthy fiber and only 150 calories. The fiber in this particular breakfast food can help us lower our cholesterol and maintain a healthy body weight. As you can see from its texture, oatmeal is also great at curbing our appetite. What this means is that you will not be reaching for a snack shortly after breakfast. Oatmeal has this great way of keeping us feeling full hours longer than traditional breakfast. Atop of its appetite controlling properties, oatmeal (along with other grains such as: whole wheat, barley, rye, millet, brown rice and wild rice) can help reduce the risk of diabetes, which is a major factor for heart disease.