For the last several years, Chicago attorney Karl Anderson, 52, has been eating high-fiber, low-sugar oatmeal and raisin bran for breakfast, often with a banana. Sure, he's tempted by the coffee cake and pastries on his kitchen counter. And he fondly remembers loving Cap'n Crunch and Cocoa Krispies as a kid. "But I know those aren't good for you," he says. 

    Today Anderson feels better than ever about his choice. That's because a study of 21,376 male physicians, published this week in the Archives of Internal Medicine, found that men who eat whole-grain cereal have a lower incidence of heart failure than men who don't. "I'm happy to hear it," says Anderson. 

    在過去幾年中，芝加哥52歲的律師卡爾·安德森早餐一直在吃高纖維、低糖份的燕麥和葡萄干加麥麩，并經常加上一個香蕉。當然，他也受到廚房柜臺上的咖啡蛋糕和糕點的誘惑。他很天真地回憶起小時候是如何喜歡“克朗奇船長米粉”和可可脆餅。他說：“但是我知道這些東西不好。”

    如今，安德森對他的選擇非常滿意，因為21376名男性內科醫生本周在《內科醫學檔案》雜志上發表一項研究報告指出，吃全谷物食品的男人比不吃的男性患心臟病的可能性要低。安德森說：“我很高興聽到這一點。”