EATING BREAKFAST (Cont. 1)
breakfast, but they liked the sugary breakfast cereal best, followed by the whole-grain-plus-sugar breakfast. The whole-grain breakfast came up last in likeability.
However, hunger ratings before lunch - and amount eaten at lunch - were a different matter. The Breakfast 3 group, those who eat a high-glycemic index breakfast, were hungrier and ate far more than the other groups. This was true whether the child was overweight or not, boy or girl. In fact, children in Breakfast 1 and 2 groups ate less at lunch than the children who eat a high GI Breakfast - the junk-breakfast cereal group.
The addition of sugar did not have any big effect on the glycemic index of the whole-grain breakfast, authors note. However, bland cereals such as oatmeal and porridge are more palatable with a small bit of sugar - and could keep more kids eating it, they say.
It's another lesson that simple carbohydrates - whether in the form of sugar or foods made with refined flour- can short circuit the best intended weight loss efforts.