Are you obese? Are you often prone to acidity? Do you have ulcers? Are you finding yourself with a short attention span? If your answer is YES to any of these, you must be skipping your breakfast, which is called the brain food and is the most essential meal in the day. The reason behind skipping a nutritious breakfast could be anything right from having had a heavy dinner the night before or starting off late to work in the morning hours or just do not have the time for it or skipping with the assumption of slimming down.
You are wrong – Skipping breakfast would, in fact, lead to obesity. Attributing this to a change in lifestyle and perception, we grow up on the belief that skipping a breakfast would not matter and we could compensate it by way of a good meal.
But dietitians are asserting the important of this meal due to the 11-12 hour gap between your last dinner and the breakfast that makes it too long a time for the body to resist. Skipping a breakfast would add additional hours thereby disrupting the metabolism of the body. In addition to this, this long period could also lead to digestive problems. To avoid all these, intake of a healthy and nutritious breakfast is very important for effective functioning of the body metabolism.
It is a misinterpreted myth that skipping breakfast would help you lose weight. Whereas, most of the diets advocate the fact that skipping meals would help you gain weight on the contrary (as one tends to eat more than normal due to the craving) and lead you to be the host of many problems and diseases. On the long run, skipping meals leads to the shrinkage of the stomach and the intestines causing a few more issues.
The ideal time to have breakfast would be from 7 AM to 9 AM. A breakfast should be wholesome, nutritious and balanced consisting of essential nutrients like proteins, calcium, fiber, considerable amount of antioxidants, and multivitamins. Anything done in the right time is beneficial and that is true for breakfast too, it keeps the body metabolism intact. Plan your breakfast beforehand to avoid skipping this and be a ‘brainy YOU.’
It is not simply said, “Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dine like a pauper.”
