By now, I’m sure you’ve heard people say
that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. However, that doesn’t
stop millions of Americans, and people around the world, from skipping breakfast
or opting for only a drink of coffee. The truth is that breakfast really is the
most important meal of the day, and you will have a much more healthy diet if
you include breakfast in your daily life.
Breakfast is rightly named—break fast. When
you sleep, you are not eating for 6 to 9 hours at least, and more if you
haven’t eaten since dinner the night before. Therefore, breakfast is the first
time you’ll be eating anything for a very long period of time. Some nutrients,
like proteins, cannot be stored in the body and are therefore not present, so
the body needs you to replenish the “low” levels of such nutrients. Breakfast
is like the match that lights the fire. It truly is a very important source of
energy for your body in the morning.
Eating breakfast in the morning also helps
you avoid some illnesses and disease. For example, your sugar levels are
probably out of whack from not eating for many hours, so having breakfast
levels out the amount of sugars in your body, helping to prevent diabetes. Eating
a healthy breakfast also helps you to provide food to your stomach so that you
don’t overeat at lunch because you are so hungry. Overeating leads to obesity,
which comes with a whole host of problems, including heart disease.
Healthy breakfast foods, like eggs, fruit,
or bran cereal are also a good source of many of the vitamins and minerals a
person needs during the day. If you don’t eat these things in the morning, it
will be hard to make up for that loss later in the day. Remember that without
the proper amounts of nutrients, you body will not function correctly. When you
eat a healthy breakfast, it also makes you choose healthier foods during the
rest of the day, so that you continue to get the proper nutrients needed for
your body.
Setting aside 15 minutes in the morning to
eat breakfast every day can truly make a great different in your diet. In the
best case, your breakfast will include foods from at least three different food
groups. For example, you can have whole grain toast (bread food group) with
peanut butter (protein food group) and a banana (fruit food group). Top that
off with a glass of milk to drink, and you’ve even hit a fourth food group.
Breakfast does not have to include a heavy pancakes and sausage meal every day
to be healthy, and even grabbing a single piece of fruit or a muffin is better
than skipping the meal completely. Breakfast is important to your health!
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