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• It is morning in America and I am in the breakfast nook, about to employ my new strategy for choking down fiber in amounts that were once the province of field animals.
• The doctor has ordered - and not just my doctor, friends - massive fiber dosing.
• Which means not merely your grandma's prunes and grapefruit (especially since grapefruit doesn't mix with the statin drugs half the country is taking) or kidney-bean chili.
• No, the ante has been way upped: The new dietary guidelines say whole grains should make up half the grains you eat, which means exponential increases for most of us.
• You can get it any way you want it - in your limas, raspberries, corn, kale, broccoli or almonds.
• But some breakfast cereals have unbelievable stats.
• At my table, this has meant stare-downs with General Mills' wretchedly tasteless Fiber One, a particular favorite of my particular doctor, which tops out at 14 grams of fiber per half-cup, about 57 percent of your daily requirement.
• Sometimes I'll have Kellogg's All-Bran Buds, which also supply more than half your recommended fiber intake and taste marginally less like cardboard.
• Literally and in its marketing materials, as it retools to catch the whole-grain wave.
• Post is running ads for whole-grain Frosted Shredded Wheat.
• And PepsiCo's "Take Heart" Quaker instant oatmeal added half a gram more of soluble fiber - that's the cholesterol-lowering kind - to its packets.
• Fifty years ago, my mother plied us with wheat germ.
• You'll find the same theme in Mireille Guiliano's new best-seller, French Women Don't Get Fat (Knopf; $22).
• Then we top it with sliced banana, and sprinkle it with currants.
• And a squeeze of honey from the plastic Honey Bear.

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