Grandma says 'Breakfast is Important'

How many of us have actually believed this? Hardly anyone, isn’t it? I hated to eat in the morning and my mom had to force feed me every day. But now I realize the importance of breakfast. I know there are so many people just like me, who do not like to have breakfast.

This is because of so many reasons like, we could sleep 15 minutes more, or we can reach office in time if we skip the breakfast. And my personal favorite, I will have to exercise less, if I eat less. But this time management where we save 15 minutes and think we are so smart, disrupts everything.

Various research teams around the world have proved that people who skip breakfast have more probability of being obese and diabetic. The reason behind are:

1-      The difference between our dinner and breakfast of the next day is of 8 or 10 hours, minimum. When we skip our breakfast, we become hungrier by noon and eat more.

2-      We tend to become hungrier if we work out and do not have a nutritional diet. So even after doing enough exercise we do not reduce, as we eat more than we should and usually something unhealthy, because we hardly care of anything when our stomach is growling.

3-      Many people have cereal bars in breakfast thinking it’s a smarter choice. The calorie content in most of these bars is higher than that in sweets. Secondly by eating breakfast high in sugar content, our blood sugar level drops later. As a result we have a sudden urge of eating something sweet and we end up eating high calorie refined carb.

4-      Another reason why even after so much of workouts we do not burn enough fat is because our body does not process the food eaten after a big gap easily. Food is like fuel to our body. When we eat after a significant gap, our body tries to hold onto the nutrients as long as possible.

My grandma told me a rule to remember to have a health and fit body. She said that we should have breakfast like a king. Means breakfast should be heavy and nutritious. Lunch should be like a commoner which should have sufficient food so that you survive till dinner and at the same time should not starve. And last but not the least; dinner should be like a beggar. This means bare minimum food because at night, body will be resting therefore will not burn any energy.

You also try this rule and you will feel a significant difference within yourself. Your workouts will also show desirable effect without making you starve. Enjoy a healthy breakfast daily J