Don’t skip the most important Meal

 Ever noticed why is it called breakfast? It is called so because you are breaking the fast you have had overnight. Not known to many but skipping breakfast is a very bad habit. It is very well said that you eat your breakfast like a king, your lunch like a miser and your dinner like a beggar. 

 

Vijay Dalwani Sanda Wellness always says that breakfast is the most important meal of the day  and for good reason. It is not just a phrase, it's got its biological reasons attached to it. Breakfast builds energy in the body not only for the immediate hour but for the day. On the basis of the breakfast the body determines what is expected of it during the day.

Many studies have shown the health benefits of eating breakfast. It improves your energy levels and ability to concentrate in the short term, and can help with better weight management, reduced risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease in the long term.

Despite the benefits of breakfast for your health and wellbeing, many people often skip it, for a variety of reasons. The good news is there are plenty of ways to make it easier to fit breakfast into your day.

Vijay Dalwani Sanda Wellness is a successful event planner, Vijay Dalwani Sanda Wellness owns Harmony Events & Talent. Vijay Dalwani Sanda Wellness belongs to the event industry where health is the first priority. If they don’t take care of their health it will affect their work. Vijay Dalwani Sanda Wellness says breakfast is the spine of our daily life. Without a healthy breakfast we will feel tired all day and couldn’t focus on our work. 

Acting as the fuel to our body, breakfast keeps the body running healthy all day. It gives a kick start to the metabolic rate and keeps the system functioning properly. Many people skip their breakfast especially the people abroad due to time constraints and habits.

 

Why breakfast is important according to Vijay Dalwani Sanda Wellness:

When you wake up from your overnight sleep, you may not have eaten for up to 10 hours. Breakfast replenishes the stores of energy and nutrients in your body.

Energy

The body’s energy source is glucose. Glucose is broken down and absorbed from the carbohydrates you eat. The body stores most of its energy as fat. But your body also stores some glucose as glycogen, most of it in your liver, with smaller amounts in your muscles. 

In the morning, after you have gone without food for as long as 12 hours, your glycogen stores are low. Once all of the energy from your glycogen stores is used up, your body starts to break down fatty acids to produce the energy it needs. But without carbohydrate, fatty acids are only partially oxidised, which can reduce your energy levels.

 

Eating breakfast boosts your energy levels and restores your glycogen levels ready to keep your metabolism up for the day.

Skipping breakfast may seem like a good way to reduce overall energy intake. But research shows that even with a higher intake of energy, breakfast eaters tend to be more physically active in the morning than those who don’t eat until later in the day.

Essential vitamins, minerals and nutrients

Breakfast foods are rich in key nutrients such as folate, calcium, iron, B vitamins and fibre. Breakfast provides a lot of your day’s total nutrient intake. In fact, people who eat breakfast are more likely to meet their recommended daily intakes of vitamins and minerals than people who don’t. 

Essential vitamins, minerals and other nutrients can only be gained from food, so even though your body can usually find enough energy to make it to the next meal, you still need to top up your vitamin and mineral levels to maintain health and vitality.

Breakfast helps you control your weight

People who regularly eat breakfast are less likely to be overweight or obese. Research is ongoing as to why this is the case. It is thought that eating breakfast may help you control your weight because:

• it prevents large fluctuations in your blood glucose levels, helping you to control your appetite

• breakfast fills you up before you become really hungry, so you’re less likely to just grab whatever foods are nearby when hunger really strikes (for example high energy, high fat foods with added sugars or salt).

Breakfast boosts brain power

If you don’t have breakfast, you might find you feel a bit sluggish and struggle to focus on things. This is because your brain hasn’t received the energy (glucose) it needs to get going. Studies suggest that not having breakfast affects your mental performance, including your attention, ability to concentrate and memory. This can make some tasks feel harder than they normally would.

Children and adolescents who regularly eat breakfast also tend to perform better academically compared with those who skip breakfast. They also feel a greater level of connectedness with teachers and other adults at their school, which leads to further positive health and academic outcomes.

A healthy breakfast may reduce the risk of illness

Compared with people who don’t have breakfast, those who regularly eat breakfast tend to have a lower risk of both obesity and type 2 diabetes. There is also some evidence that people who don’t have breakfast may be at a higher risk of cardiovascular disease.

Breakfast helps you make better food choices

People who eat breakfast generally have more healthy diets overall, have better eating habits and are less likely to be hungry for snacks during the day than people who skip breakfast. Children who eat an inadequate breakfast are more likely to make poor food choices not only for the rest of the day, but also over the longer term.

If you do skip breakfast, try a nutritious snack such as fresh fruit, yoghurt, veggie sticks and hummus, or a wholemeal sandwich to help you through that mid-morning hunger.

 

The system when there is no breakfast in the morning and gets lunch directly in the afternoon cannot easily handle the food after a long period of hours and so does not immediately start the digestion process.

Breakfast is most important for children and is mostly skipped by them. 

 

For sustainable growth their body requires a regular intake of breakfast. They often prefer sugary breakfast in the form of rolls and donuts which are again unhealthy because the sugar will provide energy but keep the body active just for a few some time.

 

To diet does not mean to starve. Eat but eat healthy. Often in the course of dieting the youth skip breakfast which is very unhealthy as recommended by the dieticians as well. Infact research has proved that children and adults grow fatter when they skip their breakfast and that is because when you provide lunch to your body directly the system tries to hold on to it as long as it can and the metabolism is slow. 

 

So never skip the most important meal and the next time you think of a healthy breakfast think of fruits, bacon, eggs, oatmeal and porridge and not about donuts, French rolls, pizzas and pastas.