The Writer's Breakfast - Healthy Living

Healthy Living Means Eating Well to Write Well
"as freedom is a breakfastfood...
but love is the sky and i am for you
just so long and long enough"
- e.e.cummings

Why Eat Well
If you're half-asleep, sick, or dead, your writing suffers...

You are what you eat, and you write what you are. Ergo: you write what you eat(?) Well, o.k., so syllogistic thinking isn't always at its best at 6 A.M. Still, "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" is axiomatic.

It's also problematic since writers "know" so many other things, and are driven to enlighten the world with that knowledge. Occasionally, then, a writer may think, write, and enlighten right past breakfast and suddenly realize breakfast hunger pangs at dinner time.

A Breakfast for Writers - the Basics
Do you know where your oatmeal is?

Sturm's Whole Grain Oatmeal is a standard in The Writer's Breakfast. It is "healthy for your heart" and provides a good nutritional foundation to begin your writer's day. My two favorites are Sturm's Blueberry Whole Grain Oatmeal and Sturm's Cranberry Whole Grain Oatmeal. Sturm's Whole Grain Oatmeal is made in the U.S.A. (See Endnotes, below, for nutritional values and daily requirement numbers.)

Yoplait Light Yogurt, approved by BestLife and meeting the National Yogurt Association "criteria for live and active yogurt culture," is fat free, with 110 calories. My favorite is Yoplait Light Yogurt "Very Vanilla" because it is high in protein (6g). Yoplait Light Yogurt is distributed by Yoplait USA, Minneapolis, MN under license of Yoplait International SAS, France. (See Endnotes, below, for nutritional values and daily requirement numbers.)

Bigelow Green Tea, either Mint or Blueberry, is a good antioxidant agent. Blended and packaged in the U.S.A., Bigelow Green Tea has 0 calories, 0 fats, 0 carbohydrates, 0 Sodium, and only 15mg Potassium. Additionally, on average, green tea only has about 25% the caffeine of coffee (25-50mg v. 100-120mg per 8 oz. serving).

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