Importance of Breakfast

The Importance of Having Breakfast

Executive Summary about importance of breakfast by Deborah Carraro

Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper. Eating breakfast will add fuel to your fire and accelerate your metabolism. If you don’t eat breakfast, your metabolism will slow down.

You have to reverse your eating pattern to give yourself a chance to feel hungry in the morning, so eat throughout the day and have breakfast, morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea. Skipping breakfast is dangerous, but skipping dinner is not, as long as you’re not hungry and as long as you’ve had a big breakfast and a big lunch. A lot of us are scared to reverse our eating pattern, because we believe we will blow up like balloons if we eat breakfast, and because we are afraid not to be able to go to sleep on an empty stomach. But fat deposits are not caused by hearty breakfasts, and we sleep a lot better after a light evening meal.

Your body uses a great deal of energy in the morning, which is why breakfast will never make you fat. If you eat enough during the day, a small dinner will satisfy your hunger.

You might be using food as a substitute when you feel an uncontrollable urge to continue eating after your evening meal. The body seems to be able to handle fat and protein a lot better in the morning than in the evening, so whatever you eat in the evening has to be very low in fat. If you want to eat a salami sandwich, do it in the morning, for breakfast!

A lot of us think that eating breakfast is a sin. To us eating is similar to budgeting, so we skip breakfast, feeling good about it, and don’t understand why we can’t lose weight. When you don’t eat breakfast, your metabolism slows down, as your body strives to conserve fat instead of burning it. A better way to lose weight is to have a big breakfast, lunch and a small dinner. You will wake up energetic and slightly hungry, ready for another breakfast.

• Eat a big breakfast.
  Include complex carbohydrates, lean protein and fresh fruit in your breakfast.
  Eat a nutritious lunch and a light evening meal.
  Avoid eating late at night.
  Don’t save all your calories for the evening.

Importance of Breakfast in Your Diet

Breakfast is an important element in one’s daily diet, whatever type of diet you may refer.

Because the food we eat in our diet, the times when we eat and the particular type of food intake (protein, starch, sugar) all affect blood sugar levels and appetite. This results in relatively low blood sugar. If one skips breakfast in one’s diet, the blood sugar level continues to dip and a sudden craving can develop for food, especially for sugar in the diet, which again causes a quick rise in blood sugar.

A diet which maintains appropriate levels of blood sugar and energy will include a healthy breakfast. Protein in particular in the diet, including breakfast, will maintain blood sugar levels, avoiding the dips which lead to snacking.

A healthy breakfast is an essential part of a healthy diet. Don’t skip breakfast in your daily diet.

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