Philip wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:12:24 -0700, Lynnet Bannion <[log in to unmask]> 
> wrote:
>
>   
>> ... Actually cold pizza
>> beats the heck out
>> of sugared cereals as a breakfast.  It at least has some protein.
>> Especially if you peeled
>> the topping off the crust and gave the crust to the chickens.  :-)
>>
>>    Lynnet
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>>     
>
> I agree with you there, a little pepperoni or sausage puts pizza above 
> sweetened (Wheaties is sweetened with sugar, corn syrup, and brown sugar 
> syrup, for example) cereal with milk, but at least whole grain cereal is 
> consistent with the standard stance that these health organizations 
> usually take (as misguided as it is). As I remember it, it used to be that 
> pretty much everyone recognized that cold pizza or spaghetti made from 
> refined grains was not health food or a good way to get energy for the day 
> and certainly not breakfast food. The thinking behind cereal for breakfast 
> is that whole grains provide healthy fiber (bogus of course--but the 
> standard view). I'm not sure what the AAP's thinking behind refined-grain 
> pizza and spaghetti is. Maybe this is part of the carb-loading insanity--
> or maybe they were just guided by the modern food industry that funds them.
>   
This actually isn't new advice. I read in a bodybuilding magazine about 
ten years ago that pizza was an "ideal" food in every way except for 
sodium. This was based on the mainstream view that calories from food 
should be 15% protein, 60% carbs, 25% fat with most of the fat being 
unsaturated and most of the carbs being complex. Plain cheese pizza 
comes very close to this "ideal."