NEVER LEAVE HOME WITHOUT BREAKFAST

Your brain needs a constant supply of glucose, which comes from food. Since the last meal before breakfast is dinner, you have already given the glucose intake a long break. If you avoid your breakfast you don’t supply enough glucose to the mind. Hence it is not a good idea to skip breakfast. Eating a good breakfast sets the tone for the rest of the day. If you skip breakfast, you don’t supply required glucose to the mind and your system is bound to be slow, you are likely to become tired as your brain and body run low on fuel.

Another important aspect, breakfast can prevent strokes, heart attack and sudden death. In fact, it is the most important meal of the day. Frequency of the heart attack, stroke and sudden death is at peak between 6:00 am and noon and it is highest between 8:00 to 10:00 am. Reason for this is platelets in the blood clump together inside your arteries due to cholesterol and laque build up in the artery lining. It is in the morning those platelets becomes more activated and tend to form internal blood clots at the greatest frequency. Breakfast prevents morning platelet activation. That is associated with heart attack and stroke.

In addition, eating breakfast is good for weight loss. Weight gain comes from the fact that having starved your body for so long, you are bound to eat more than you should at lunch, which may harm your body. Hence people who eat breakfast are more likely to maintain a healthy weight. Children who eat breakfast do better in school. It is recommended to eat good breakfast within 3 hours of getting up. A cup of coffee, tea, cold drink etc might work for a few minutes, but by lunch time you are hungry and crabby. Healthy breakfast should contain some protein and some fiber. Protein can be from low fat meats, eggs, beans or dairy products. Fiber can be found in whole grain, vegetables and fruits. A good example of healthy breakfast might be something like a hard boiled egg, a bowl of whole grain cereals with low fat milk, sprouts, fruit juices or fruits as a whole, yogurt or butter milk etc.

You should stay away from sugary cereals, syrups, pastries, sweets, white bread etc. because they are digested quickly and leave you hungry and tired in a couple of hours. Protein and fibers satisfy your hunger and keep you feeling full until lunch time.

Remember that eating a healthy breakfast is the best way to start off your day and be good to yourself by eating a healthy breakfast. Notice how much better you feel through the morning and the rest of the day when you don’t skip breakfast.