Eating high-fiber cereal for breakfast can help you consume less calories during the day, according to new research.

University of Rhode Island researchers reported recently that women who ate whole-grain cereals rich in fiber controlled calories better during a three-month study than did participants who ate less fiber.

Sally Squires writes in the Boston Herald's Lean Plate Club that the study isn't the first to find weight benefits in high-fiber foods. In 2004, Harvard School of Medicine researchers reported that high-fiber diets helped women maintain their weight during a 12-year study of 75,000 nurses.

Read the complete article and see how you can get more fiber into your diet.

-- Amanda Barrett, amNY.com