European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 25, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                To your health since bran cereals often Are not the most popular treats items manufacturers have had to go All out with Clever packaging and advertising. Jonathan probber new York times modifying the diet is difficult under any circumstance. Adding Liber May to the most unsettling modification of All. Lowering sodium intake generally requires self Flung the Sal Collar. To reduce Fil intake people avoid Tho obvious fat dense foods cheese some meals snack foods. They Cook with less Butler or Oil use nonstick pans and select foods Richer in carbohydrates to crowd fat out of their diet. Fiber. Though. Is an activist s goods Lull. Instead of simply substituting a poached egg or a Fried egg these people must seek out Liber Rich foods. They must repeatedly enl front bowls of blown bran Cereal. No More Orange juice but rather the Orange Itsell with the pulp and pith or better Yel an Apple. And baked potatoes skin on salads near raw vegetables whole Grain bread Bie Aklash is the meal where most headway can be made in meeting Libor goals and Cereal manufacturers Havo taken dead aim at americans morning eating habits. Since bran cereals Ollen Are no avidly consumed they Havo devised cleverly packaged and heavily advertised Tibet containing cold cereals one for instance features in the order listed on the Label whole wheat wheat bran and sugar Lollo Wod by a variety of dried fruits. Thai s Only a Small morsel of the information available from the remarkably Well labelled Box. Understand however that it s the Content and nutrition Labelling that Are of interest Here not the front Olbon advertisements an ounce of the Cereal about half a cup contains 5 Grams of dietary Liber. Bui Liber in t All you got there Are also 90 calories and an important notation Lor those on Low sodium diets 170 milligrams of sodium. Of Iho 22 Grams of carbohydrates per serving 7 Grams Are irom sugar natural and added. Another entry suggests a slightly larger serving size two thirds of a cup. About 1.3 ounces and still yields live Grams of dietary tiber 8ut put either Hall a cup or two thirds of a cup in your Cereal bowl and you la be impressed at How Little that actually is. There is a danger then of overdoing. You May want to eat More than the absolute minimum of Ruil and Lake that a going for fiber activist s foodstuff Clear conscience would require making in easy to go overboard on the calories. Vet another High Liber Cereal is made of oat bran other parts of the oat wheat bran sodium 140 milligrams and of course sugar. Aswill its compel tors this Cereal also oilers 5 Grams of dietary fiber per serving Bonnie Liebman. Director of nutrition Foi the Center Lor science in the Public Inlo Resl a Washington based consumer group said these medium fiber sweetened cereals were belief than cereals that Are really sugar choked breakfast Candy in disguise. The sugar level in t enormous unlike Soma cereals targeted at children which Are Hall sugar she said. That does t make it the Best you can buy or Mako yourself for thai matter. Throw some raisins for example on a Plain bran Cereal. This saves the added sugar that is the sugar that in l already in the fruit. Depending on Tho bran used in May save on sodium too. Another consideration for those allergic to sul fiting agents including Fulfur dioxide Man dried fruit and Lake products contain Fulfur dioxide almost always in the dried fruit. Some people suffer severe allergic reactions to sullies. Liebman said that the Small amount of dried fruit Likely to be found in a single bowl of Cereal would contain less sul Fitos than for instance Many wines and some vegetables on salad bars. Milch Zeisor the Center s ass Island director of Legal affairs said the Federal food and drug administration has not established that any level of sullies is Safe goods containing suiling agents in amounts exceeding 10 parts Pir million however must say so on the Label. Spokesmen Lor the Kellogg company in Baltic Creek. Mich., and the general foods corporation in while Plains ,. Two of the largest Cero Al manufacturers in the United Stales declined to say How much Fulfur dioxide is in their Ruil and Llano products. Marie Kitlas. Manager of Corporale publicity Lor the Kellogg company said it was a minute amount. Chill sessions Public information manager Lor Genera foods said the amounts used in the company s cereals Woro just enough to help preserve the fruit. No matter whal soils of shenanigans one must go through to inject a Tittle fiber into wheel it s Worth it. Fiber plays a role in the Light against cancer of the rectum and Colon especially for people with family histories of these cancers. In addition some kinds of fiber can be elective in lowering cholesterol in the blood most recently attention has focused on oat bran As a result of a report showing Illo be an inexpensive Aid to lowering cholesterol. Note that Oatmeal is an elective source of oat bran dry oat bran cereals less so if they contain ingredients other than oat bran like other Oal components and wheal bran. Moreover As Liebman notes Coconut Oil a saturated vegetable fal found in Many cereals May go some Way toward of Selling whatever Good the Oal bran May do in lowering cholesterol. Tuesday. October 25,19b8 the stars and stripes Page 17