Check Out Reasons Why You Should Never Skip Your Breakfast Again

Are you tired of hearing about how breakfast is the most important meal of the day? Well, this advice probably is not going to stop until more of us start eating our morning meals.

If you can get yourself into the habit of eating something in the morning, it will pay dividends for your health. Make the time – it’s five minutes very well spent.”

About 17 percent of males and 14 percent of females between the ages of 36 and 55 are breakfast skippers, according to a 2011 study by the market research company NPD group.

But the evidence that suggests that breakfast is a meal not-to-be-skipped is overwhelming. In fact, I have never encountered a study that suggests the opposite.

Some of the research showing the possible benefits of breakfast are as follows:

Diabetes: Skipping breakfast may increase a woman’s diabetes risk, according to a study published this month in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Women who ate breakfast an average of zero to six times per week were at a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes than women who ate breakfast every day.

Heart Disease: Eating breakfast was associated with a lower incidence of heart disease in men between ages 45 and 82, according to a July study in the journal-Circulation. The study also found that skipping breakfast was associated with hypertension, insulin resistance and elevated blood sugar levels.

Memory: A 2005 Journal of the American Diabetic Association review of 47 breakfast-related studies found that eating breakfast is likely to improve cognitive function related to memory and test grades.

Weight Loss: In one recent study, people who ate breakfast as their largest meal lost an average of 8.07kg over three months. The other participants consumed the same number of total calories per day, but ate most of their calories at dinner, according to the study published in July in the journal-Obesity. The large-dinner group only lost an average of 3.31kg each over the same time period.

If you have made up your mind to keep regular date with your breakfast, there are endless choices.

Breakfasts don’t have to be repetitive and boring, and if you don’t fancy cereal, there are plenty of other healthy options to choose from.

There are loads of other healthy breakfasts you can go for – there’s porridge, toast and nut butter, boiled or scrambled egg and toast, and even leftovers from the night before, like boiled rice in a stir fry.

Even cooked breakfasts can be made in a healthy way, scrambling or poaching eggs instead of frying them, grilling mushrooms and tomatoes, which are a great source of the antioxidant compound lycopene, which helps protect against prostate cancer. You can also add baked beans for soluble fibre, and whole meal toast.

Just avoid processed red meat, like bacon, because limiting your intake of processed read meat is recommended, due to its links with certain cancers. 

Source: HealthNG