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(Karen Armour). Good morning.
My name is Karen Armour.
I'm a graduate student in the dietetics program
at Eastern Illinois University.
Today I'm going to talk to you about the benefits of eating
a healthy breakfast with an on-the-go lifestyle.
I chose to have a guest with me today
and her name is Yolanda Williams.
She is an adviser in the Gateway Program of Minority Affairs.
Good morning Miss Williams.
(Yolanda Williams). Good morning Karen.
(Karen). It's great to have you.
(Yolanda). It's great being here.
(Karen). Thank you very much.
Alright Miss Williams, I would like to ask you do you choose to
eat breakfast in the morning?
(Yolanda). I do, but ironically
today I didn't have breakfast.
(Karen). Why didn't you eat
breakfast this morning?
(Yolanda). I don't know,
just I was moving fast this morning
and didn't get a chance to eat before I left.
(Karen). So would you say that
time was an issue for you?
(Yolanda). Yes, this morning, yes.
(Karen). Did you know that
20% of adults between the ages of 18 and 49
do not consume breakfast on a daily basis?
(Yolanda). No I did not.
(Karen). And actually adult women
are less likely to eat breakfast than their male counterparts?
That's pretty interesting.
Well, what I'm going to tell you today is about the importance of
eating breakfast, making sure that your breakfast is composed
from the different food groups as well as quick and simple
recipes that you can use on a daily basis to eat breakfast.
(Yolanda). Okay.
(Karen). Great, today, I'm going to
begin with the convenience of eating breakfast.
Breakfast is a meal that you can eat anytime after you wake up.
It's a convenient meal that can be composed of a simple cereal,
an instant cereal such as oatmeal or cream of wheat,
or if you would like something even lighter,
you can choose a choice of fresh apples and fruit, yogurt,
a simple scrambled egg, or even a simple English muffin.
These are things that are very convenient
and easy for you to make.
Do you think those are things you can make
in the morning Miss Williams?
(Yolanda). Yes, I think I can do that.
I can handle that.
(Karen). Great, also, did you know
the many nutrient benefits you can get by combining
the many different food groups in your breakfast choices?
(Yolanda). No, can you tell me
a little bit about that?
(Karen). Sure thing, I will.
The benefits of adding whole grain oats
to your breakfast, fiber.
Fiber is a wonderful added benefit of consuming a product
such as mini-wheats, whole-wheat English muffins,
whole grain oats.
You want to make sure the products that you pick do
contain whole grain oats or wheat as their sources of fiber.
Also, you can also choose dairy products.
By consuming dairy products, those lead to benefits such as
calcium, and that is important for bone health and growth.
Another benefit is potassium.
Potassium is a nutrient that is actually found in bananas
and other fruits such as apples with the skin on,
and that is also important with lowering the sodium intake
that you have inside your body.
Did you know that Miss Williams?
(Yolanda). No I didn't,
and that's some good information,
but how can I incorporate this in my schedule?
(Karen). That's a great question.
I'm so glad you asked that.
You can incorporate those simple food groups in your daily
schedule by actually picking up, maybe, a cereal bar.
A whole grain, fruit cereal bar is a quick and easy way
to have your breakfast in the morning before you leave.
Another simple way is to get your food groups by picking up
these pretty neat simple packs of fruit, apples, and grapes.
Also, 1/2 cup of fruit is in a four once serving of applesauce
or a snack pack of mandarin oranges, peaches, or pears.
Also, another way you can do a simple recipe at home which you
can use is take an English muffin, a whole wheat
English muffin, cut the English muffin in half like so.
You can actually use salsa.
Take a tablespoon of salsa and place it on top of
the English muffin.
Once you're finished with adding the salsa,
what you want to add is cheese.
This helps you to incorporate your dairy food group.
Sprinkle a little cheese on top like so.
There you are.
And then what you can do is place this English muffin
in the oven and let it toast for a little while,
and you have yourself a very great, nutritious little
pizza muffin in the morning.
If you don't like salsa in the morning you can actually make
the same muffin and you can use a yogurt spread,
such as Brummel and Brown's fruit yogurt spread.
You can take the spread, approximately a tablespoon,
place it on top of your muffin, like so.
If you like what I like to do, I like to add a little bit of
fruit on top to give me a little added benefit, so you can take
either your apples or your grapes, or even frozen fruit
like berries, strawberries, mangos, or any other type of
fruit thay you would like to add, and you can place that on
top of your muffin as well and that can be a cold version for
what you can do as well.
Is that something you would like to
incorporate in your breakfast?
(Yolanda). Yes, I think I can do that.
(Karen). That would be great.
Well, as I've already told you and stated, that many benefits
of breakfast include nutrition, nutrient benefits such as
potassium, which can help lower your blood pressure due to
the sodium that is in your body.
Also, your cholesterol levels which the fiber helps to lower
your cholesterol levels as well, but also weight management,
which is another benefit of actually eating breakfast
in the morning.
We have also gone over quick recipies that you could you use
in the morning with you.
And last but not least, the one thing that you can use
are additional research opportunities on the Internet.
The Breakfast Research Institute of Tropicana and Quaker Oats
is a great start for you to learn more information,
and find out quick recipes.
Also, you can use mypyramid.gov which
actually shows you the different food groups
and how much you need of each food group everyday.
Also, the American Heart Association, they have
great information that talks about cholesterol
and the many different meals or food options that you can use
to help lower this as well.
Do you think those resources are going to be beneficial to you?
(Yolanda). Yes.
I've actually went onto mypyramid.gov.
So that's a really good resource.
(Karen). Great.
Well thank you very much, Miss Williams.
I appreciate you coming in today.
So thank you.
(Yolanda). Thank you.
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