Yoghurt and cereal are actually mentioned in the article, for the average type bought being not much better than anything else.
Eggs, bacon, and sausage are fine - but still not a great choice for every day.
(As long as you get some veggies in over the rest of your day, have as much grease and salt as you want.)
> Eggs, bacon, and sausage are fine - but still not a great choice for every day.
Of course you "can" - just not _healthily_ without significant break from norms for other meals.
Does it give you energy in the morning though? I notice that if I eat that I don't really feel all too energetic while if I eat high fiber and light (as in no fat or carbs) I usually don't even feel like lunch. Might be personal; people I know have that as well but that's anecdotal so i'm asking :) I don't know too many people who would eat eggs, bacon and sausage for breakfast often or at all.
You may not necessarily convince me to give up meat, but if you are gentle in your approach, you may convince me to be careful about the way my various food-animals are treated.
My personal experience with it is lots of energy and a long-lasting satiety that allows me to easily skip lunch.
But then again, may be that's natural in a nation that has only ever tasted plastic tomatoes.
It’s really no different here. We’re talking about, basically, heated fruit sauce mixed into yogurt as a fast and easy breakfast. This isn’t a gourmet restaurant offering.
Frozen berries are a technological improvement on jam/preserves which dramatically reduces the amount of sugar you need for long-term storage, but requires some energy use for refrigeration. If you plan to heat them, mash them up, and stir them into yogurt, they’re pretty much interchangeable with fresh berries, but are cheaper, keep for months, and can be eaten in any season.
Or is it the microwave you are opposed to? If you prefer, feel free to heat the berries in a saucepan or bake them or whatever. I find a microwave to be a lot faster and more convenient for pretty much identical results, but suit yourself..
By introducing both of these as your daily breakfast, you also limit the choices of food you can have for lunch and dinner. Sauces like mayonnaise have eggs, you probably shouldn't eat the occasional omelette, which is a tasty, occasional way of enjoying eggs (I particularly love them with ceps or asparagus), chinese fried rice, baked goods, tortilla, desserts like crepes, the list goes on. None of these are foods that should be eaten on a daily basis, but even less so if you introduced foods high in cholesterol right into your breakfast.
In general, we're pretty light on breakfast and we don't have high diabete prevalence compared to countries like the US or even Germany.
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67...
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/25/6/589.abstract
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199112123252405#t=a...
The current rehabilitation of cholesterol is about politics : http://www.foodpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2015-08-24-Ho... http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/102/2/235.extract
Eggs are loaded with HDL in addition to LDL, so they actually boost the top number. However, drinking soda or eating sugary pancakes in the same day will radically increase the bottom number.
I became keenly interested in the science on cholesterol and diet ten years ago, because my father, who has been a vegan since the mid 90's, had his first heart attack. He's subsequently had more. He consumes zero animal products, and we have no heart disease in our family history.
Edit:
Your food politics doc you linked to is just AWFUL. It makes a point about industry funding of cholesterol research since the 1990's, but ignores the immense funding and lobbying by the agricultural commodities producers (General Mills, for example) to push the original lipid hypothesis science that spurred "eggs kill you" thinking in the 1970s. I love how they use this basic correlation (increased funding and cholesterol being vindicated) to conclude causation. That's the flawed thinking that led to the bullshit nutritional standards we have today.
Personal data point - 3 eggs almost every breakfast, with some sliced meat or avocado - for about 6 years, with no adverse affects. And with no concern about 'extra' eggs in lunches and dinners (fritata, chachouka, tortilla, quiche, etc).