From the RealAge files I have found a few notes worth mentioning to help us get a better breakfast and remember I've talked about Vitamin D - well it is showing up in these notes as well!  It's gotta be important.

A Breakfast That Wakes You Up 
Dragging through your morning? Then try adding these breakfast favorites to your a.m. menu: yogurt and eggs.

This little diet tweak could help you forget you even have a snooze button, thanks to the extra dose of tyrosine -- a building block for two important wake-up-your-brain chemicals.

Do You Feel Good?
Tyrosine helps make the wake-up brain chemicals dopamine and norepinephrine. "Studies show that people tend to think more quickly and feel more motivated and energetic when their brains are producing large amounts of these chemicals," writes Selene Yeager in the book New Foods for Healing.

In addition to eggs and yogurt, other food sources of tyrosine include almonds, chicken, avocados, bananas, and sesame seeds.

Two More for the Road
Yeager recommends two more energy sources to help keep you sharp in the a.m.:

• Orange juice -- The vitamin C in orange juice has been shown to help beat fatigue. Vitamin C can also help you stay slim.
• Cream of Wheat -- This cereal contains 5 milligrams of iron, a nutrient that’s essential for energy, especially in women.

These seem like pretty easy additions to our diet - remember in another blog entry I mentioned orange juice was even better for you if you had it with oatmeal.  Maybe we just need to add it to all of our breakfast choices?

Two Nutrients for Better Cholesterol   
Trying to lose weight to get your cholesterol down? Excellent. Turbocharge your efforts with this combo supplement: calcium plus vitamin D.

A study suggests the two may boost the cholesterol-lowering benefits of weight loss, especially in people who don't get enough calcium.

Weight Loss with Extra Benefits
Overweight women with low calcium intakes had bigger improvements in cholesterol when they added a calcium+D supplement to their low-cal diets -- regardless of how little or how much body fat they shed. Why? It's possible that calcium helps curb the body's absorption of saturated fat, which in turn may help lower both total and LDL (bad) cholesterol.

That sounds like a pretty easy thing to add in order to improve our cholesterol.  Why wouldn't you try it if cholesterol is not your friend? 

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