New Year’s Resolution

I was sitting at the hairdresser’s reading the current WHO magazine. The article “Half Your Size” took my eye. It features changes that international and home grown celebrities have made in their lifestyles that have affected not only their size but also their health and wellbeing. Matt Preston was one of the featured celebrities, and there was a timely new year reminder about eating habits. How has he changed his eating habits? He eats porridge every morning and has lemon in hot water (something I remember my mum doing every day). I’ve never been much of a breakfast person, and I definitely could not be described as a morning person either. With regular late night degustations at restaurants, I’m a metabolism nightmare. Exercise of course plays an important part too.

Though I grew up in a porridge household, I find oats too hot and heavy in the Australian climate of Sydney for most of the year. What to do? Most cereals have far to much sugar and are not to my taste. But, in the last months of 2010, I did discover a range that is: goodness superfoods. I’ve tried all two of the range. Digestive 1st. Protein 1st. They both taste good. And, the cereals (I’m told) are very good for you too. A third cereal, Heart 1st if planned for launch in February of this year.

Dr Joanna McMillan (author of a number of books including the internationally published The Low GI Diet and The Low GI Diet Cookbook) has a pretty simple philosophy: eat more fresh wholesome foods. Into that mix, Joanna endorses this Australian grown and produced range of cereals.

The cereals have a low glycemic index, making them I’m told, a good choice for people with diabetes or who are heart and weight conscious. The cereals benefit from the super-wholegrain double fibre content of a ‘new’ barley called BarleyMAX.

Barley is one of the oldest cultivated cereal grains and is in the top five cultivated crops grown in the world. CSIRO have ‘discovered’ a new (non-GM) strain which they have named BARLEYmax which provides higher health benefits including higher levels of beta-gluten. This is a type of soluble fibre which helps lower cholesterol reabsorption. The combination of wholegrain BARLEYmax and wholegrain oats in Goodness Heart 1st cereal means it provdes one of the highest amounts of beta-glucan of any cereal available on the market today. (By now you get the picture! My New Year’s Resolution: is to eat breakfast daily with goodness superfoods on the daily agenda) I’m hugely supportive in a country like ours of eating more barley and barley products for environmental reasons, as it is not a water intensive crop like rice.

Goodness superfoods breakfast cereals is the first range of food products to use BARLEYmax, the world’s highest fibre wholegrain.