Have a bowl of cereal for dinner

Dinner's ready!

Bill Phillips, the editor of MensHealth.com, likes a bowl of cereal with bananas for dinner. It wouldn't be bad for the rest of us either. Here's why.

Eat a bowl of 100 percent B12-boosted cereal and milk every morning and you'll be covered for B12, he writes, and that vitamin is essential if you don't want to lose brain matter as you age. Acid-blocking drugs may be depriving you of as much B12 as you need.

The banana offers potassium -- without this essential mineral, your heart couldn't beat, your muscles wouldn't contract, and your brain couldn't comprehend this sentence. Why? Potassium helps your cells use glucose for energy. A banana offers 400 mg of the 4,700 mgs a young man needs each day.

The milk offers iodine, and you probably don't get what you need from salt. However, iodine can also be found in a nearly sodium-free source: milk. Animal feed is fortified with the element, meaning it travels from cows to your cereal bowl. Not a milk lover? Eat at least one serving of eggs or yogurt a day; both are good sources of iodine.