5 Healthy Reasons to Eat Oatmeal for Breakfast

5 Healthy Reasons to Eat Oatmeal for Breakfast
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Whether you look to the Mayo Clinic, WebMD, or the surgeon general, the recommendation is clear: breakfast is not a meal worth skipping. It’s the meal of champions, and our first source of the day’s energy and nutrients. Extensive research shows that healthy breakfast foods help to improve your concentration and performance, gives you more strength and endurance to meet the day’s challenges, lowers your cholesterol levels, and may even contribute to weight loss by speeding up your metabolism.

But, as more studies continue to unveil, what you put into your mouth for that critical meal may be equally as important.   

Experts are now trumpeting oatmeal as "the perfect breakfast."