Eight reasons why you should eat breakfast
Find out how a simple bowl of breakfast can save your day.
YOU should not skip breakfast. It’s an important meal that starts your day and sets your energy levels.
“You may feel like you are cutting down on calories, but instead you are cutting down on important nutrients your body needs and causing more harm than good in the process,” says Daniela Venier, dietitian from Planet Fitness and Smart Healthcare.
Here’s how a eating breakfast can save your day.
Energy levels
Breakfast foods are packed with healthy carbohydrates and fibre, which provide you with great energy in the morning.
Prevent unhealthy cravings
Skipping breakfast will lead to you nibbling during the day and this is usually on unhealthy snacks. Waiting long before eating can make you feel peckish and lead to unhealthy meal choices.
Prevents calorie burning
Spreading your food intake out over the course of the day helps keep the metabolism working at a healthy pace and ready to go. Skipping breakfast slows down your metabolism, which slows down the pace at which your body burns calories.
Low sugar levels
Your body sugar levels drop during the night. Skipping breakfast makes your blood sugar drop even lower, leaving you sluggish and hungrier.
Concentrating is harder
Breakfast helps replenish your energy levels. Skipping it can make it difficult to concentrate throughout the day.
Increases your cholesterol levels
Eating a nutritious breakfast will help lower your trans-fat and cholesterol levels.
Makes exercise hard
To burn fat and calories you need to have energy. Missing breakfast will make exercising harder.
Miss important nutrients
Research has revealed that people who skip breakfast miss out on important nutrients, such as calcium and fibre. The majority of these individuals end up consuming more fat than breakfast eaters.
Courtesy: Planet Fitness and Capacity Relations
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