Your Mind and Body Can’t do without Break fast

Scientists have for long been claiming that having breakfast consistently every day has many nutritional and mental health benefits, both in children and adults.

 

Unfortunately, there are far too many of us who either do not know the consequences of skipping breakfast or are just too occupied and busy that this does not seem to figure on our to-do list for the day, almost every day. There is also a possibility that the ones among us skipping breakfast regularly are eating too much of the wrong kind of things at night.

 

Let us take a look at the many reasons why skipping breakfast is not a very good idea and the consequent effects of doing so on our body, and mind.

 

Skipping breakfast makes us more likely to have a heart attack or to die from heart disease. This is because breakfast happens to be the easiest way for our body to get heart-healthy fibre from whole grain cereal and oats, which can help lower blood pressure and cholesterol, and thus prevent us from heart attack and other heart related diseases.

 

Skipping breakfast makes us fat as the ones among us skipping breakfast are more likely to overeat individual meals later during the day. This puts us at a higher risk of obesity. Alternatively, eating more, smaller meals earlier in the day prevents us from overeating later in the day. It also limits concentrations of insulin, a hormone in our body that encourages fat cells to store fatty acids.

 

Skipping breakfast can make us forgetful. A study of elementary school children published in the journal Psychology and Behavior, found that elementary school kids who ate a breakfast of oatmeal had better short-term memory than students who did not eat breakfast. And we all know that memory impairment can have many far reaching consequences for us and the ones close to us.

 

Skipping breakfast can increase our risk of type 2 diabetes. This because people missing breakfast have a higher insulin resistance, which has been known to increase the possibility of having Type 2 diabetes.

 

Skipping breakfast can make us cranky and develop a negative approach towards everything. Breakfast provides our body the much needed vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients to jump-start our day. If we miss breakfast, we will surely be feeling tired and cranky at some time during the day. Workouts for women this can cause our mood to dive nose down as compared to the greater positive mood we may have when we have breakfast.

 

Skipping breakfast can adversely affect our physical performance. Some of us have a misconception that skipping breakfast makes our body burn more calories from fat and thus aid weight loss. Well, that is just that: a misconception. There is no scientific evidence for that. Moreover, by starting our day empty stomach, what we are really doing is setting ourselves up to crash and causing our body more harm than good.

 

Skipping breakfast can be harmful for our mental performance. It isn’t just our body that suffers when we don’t eat breakfast and start our day properly. Our mental abilities, such as focus, problem solving, memory storage and recall too suffer significantly when our brain doesn’t get necessary energy (in the form of glucose) in the morning.

 

As we can see, there are simply no benefits and a lot of consequences (both short term and long term) of skipping breakfast, every day or even one single time; and it should be avoided at all cost at all times.

[Source: http://livebeingfit.com/your-mind-body-cant-do-without-breakfast/]