By: Tuba Khokhar
Breakfast is often described as the most important meal of the day, providing as it does sustenance and energy (i.e., calories) for whatever activities lay ahead. As old saying: “Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.” Many people do just the opposite, which is exactly the wrong way to eat if you’re trying to lose weight!
The first thing to take note of here is how the failure to eat something at the start of the day can have surprisingly serious health consequences for those concerned. For instance, almost 27% increase in coronary heart disease among those who regularly failed to eat a meal at the start of the day.
Here question arise could skipping breakfast actually be the key to maximizing your health? Diet fads are as old as humankind itself. When we wake up, we’ve just gone eight hours without food, our body is craving nourishment, and our brain needs glucose to function at its best. Skipping breakfast sets us up for disaster in a number of different ways.
Numerous studies over the years have shown that skipping breakfast impacts the behavior and mental performance of school kids. Students who eat breakfast have better memory and higher math and reading scores.
In contrast, kids who go to school without breakfast have a higher number of behavior problems, including fighting, stealing, having difficulty with teachers, and not acknowledging rules.
People who skip breakfast are more than four times as likely to be obese than people who eat something in the morning. That’s right, skipping breakfast makes you fatter!
