Oatmeal is NOT

Quoted form last Sunday's Parade magazine article.
"Oatmeal is most people’s idea of a healthy breakfast, but you may need to rethink your morning meal. A controlled study at Boston Children’s Hospital found that eating only instant oatmeal for breakfast increased kids’ appetite and calorie consumption by more than 80% the rest of the day when compared to eating a vegetable omelet and fruit for breakfast. (Eating steel-cut oats did not spike appetite as much.) The study’s researchers attribute the results to fluctuations in blood sugar that occur after a meal consisting of processed grain products, and they stress the importance of having some protein at breakfast

Starting today!

Recommended by my doctor (!!!). I was very skeptical until I did some reading starting with the July 7, 2002 NYTimes magazine article 'What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?' by Gary Taubes (sorry can't link to NY Times but you can find it at Other readings I've done help make sense of it.
I found it fascinating that most articles, tv shows, etc. focused on the high protein and fat and that you can have bacon, eggs, steak, butter, cream all the time. When you actually read what Dr. Atkins has written, there is more involved including eating vegetables which I didn't get from the media, and he does warn against eating too much as well as advising that you limit consumption of processed meats