Why We Should Not Skip the Breakfast!

Breakfast is supposed to be the most important meal of the day, one can think over skipping lunch or dinner but not breakfast. The first meal of the day keeps us energised all throughout. Therefore, the idea of skipping breakfast is not one to be nurtured, because that can potentially affect your mood and energy level, which is definitely not good for your well being.

Various studies reveal that breakfast can also improve one’s short term memory. Those who miss out their breakfast, easily forget what they did a short while back. The fact behind such a study is that the brain needs to be refuelled many times in a day. The day you skip breakfast, your brain is starved of nutrients which it requires. On the other hand, people think that this act of skipping breakfast can help them lose their weight, but the fact is they might eventually end up gaining weight, because those who miss breakfast end up eating more during their next meal.

Students perform better in school when they eat breakfast, for the simple reason that breakfast is considered to be the glucose for the brain after a good overnight sleep, and if once brain is made to starve for this glucose, then one is not able to concentrate. Therefore, for school going children who take a good and fulfilling breakfast in the morning are able to perform better in class and have enhanced memory. Office going people, who have to put in a lot of mental effort during work, are able to perform their jobs in a better way if their stomach is full in the morning. Workers who have to put in physical efforts they, in no case should miss out on their breakfast.

Healthy source of protein and plenty of fibre should be a part of one’s breakfast. This will keep your stomach full till lunch time. Meat, eggs, nuts, butter are a good source of proteins. An Egg has about 75 calories, which is quite satiating which can help keep the hunger away. This will even help you avoid over eating during short intervals. Eating stuff which is full of fibre content is also beneficial for one’s healthy being. A high fibre food consists of fruits, vegetable, and whole grains.

So, those who are still of a perception that breakfast can be skipped in a day which will help you reduce your weight, it’s high time you change them.

Here are a few facts which tell us as to why one must never skip their breakfast.

• Morning meal improves your metabolism – our blood sugar level is low in the morning, this is the reason as to why we feel a little feeble in the morning. We all need food to energies ourselves. Breakfast is like a fuel, to start off with the daily functions of the human body. The food that we take in, in the morning hours, breaks down and produces energy to all the body parts and this is the reason that we are then able to perform all our daily tasks.
• Breakfast helps in reducing weight – SHOCKED!!! That is the fact once you are full after having breakfast you tend to eat less during lunch. Those who skip breakfast, eat more during lunch. This is what makes them grow fatter and make them gain weight. Dietitians suggests that that eating at regular intervals but in small quantities is far better than taking a heavy meal for lunch or dinner.
• Helps in maintaining the insulin level – research says that that skipping meals can result in hyper insulin when one tends to consume high calorie food later on. This means that the level of glues is lesser in the blood as compared to the insulin. This can further lead to fat accumulation.
• Enhances the performance at work/school – with empty stomach, no man can perform well. One needs a good breakfast so as to concentrate well and perform the best at school or at work. For students, as spoken earlier, breakfast is important because they are in their growing years, they need good nutrition. Moreover to maintain their good position in the class, they have to perform out of the box, all this is possible when they are regular with their breakfast. Same applies to those who work for long hours in the offices.
• Set a good example for your kids – if parents are not regular with their morning meals, even children won’t be. Children see and learn things, and as we know learning starts from home, if children are taught that they will not leave the house without having breakfast, they shall make it a point to do so. Mother’s have to make it a point that their children are regular with their breakfast at least.
• Consume your essential nutrients first in the morning – grabbing the most essential and building nutrients should be ones motive when you wake up in the morning. Fruits, cereals, eggs are common in breakfast which provides strength so that you remain vitalized till your next meal.
• Breakfasts helps you get out of that bad mood, soon after you wake up – breakfast makes you feel energised undoubtedly, and probably when you are not really in a good mood after you wake up from your sleep, a good healthy and nutritious breakfast can help you get out of that grumpy mood.

Apart from all of the above tips which are provided, here are a few more points which an individual should always keep in mind is:

• You should never consume any kind of desert for breakfast, because this causes blood sugar loss, and later you might feel that you are hungry yet again and thus you are tempted to eat more.
• When you are buying stuff which are rich in nutrients. One must always look into the contents deeply and should as to what is actually required by your body.

Therefore we all must keep in mind that breakfast is the most important meal of the day and we should not miss out on it.