Is Breakfast Really Necessary?
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Finally!
It's good to see somebody challenging the strangely sacred place breakfast occupies in the official nutrition universe. I'm almost never hungry in the morning, and during intervals that I've tried to force myself to eat something because of all the sages saying it's necessary, it's caused me to gain weight, which I lost after dropping the unwanted meal. There are plenty of "just coffee" in the morning types, and we should follow the patterns that seem comfortable to us.
opinion
ummmm i think that this is not true because the women are supposed to eat breakfast to keep them going through the day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Breakfast for me
For the safety of myself and others around me, I eat breakfast in the morning. While if I wake up too early, I'm not in the mood to eat a lot, I know if I don't eat, I turn into the Incredible Hulk, and nobody likes that. I'm also moody, and whiny if I don't eat breakfast.
Breakfast In The Morning
No matter how I hear that breakfeast is so important in the morning I just can't handle it and I feel really fine and I can work and I have the energy now to have something in my stomach I drink a small glass of tomato juice. I am in good health and as before I am truly energize. Now I am trying to keep my weight down I am 69 5'9" 160 to 162 lbs been this way for the last 30 years.
breakfast is important
Breakfast is still the most important meal of the day. The body has been fasting all night long and if you don't get something to eat upon waking up (within 2 hrs), you'll be running on protein energy from your muscles. FACT: In order to burn fat as a fuel you need both carbs and oxygen present (aerobic exercise). After you have been fasting for 12-14 hours your glycogen stores (stored carbs) are depleted; thus no carbs available for energy, thus can't burn fat for energy because you have no carbs present. Only thing left for energy is protein from your muscle. Lose muscle mass over time, lowers metabolism, leading to a shift in body composition (we get fatter).
Brekfast...
We feel sick when we have breakfast, I'm not hugry in the morning.... our bodies have adapted to not eating breakfast therefor when we try and have something to eat in the morning our systems arent use to it. Start by having something small, and slowly introduce brekfast back into our diets...our bodies will adapt!!!
Is breakfast necessary
I find it curious to say that people who are overweight skip meals. Perhaps it is because they eat all the time not just at meals that they are overweight. Let us face the facts 95% of overweight people are overweight due to over calories, which may come from over stressed, over depressed, or, other mental processing challenges.
As far as breakfast is concerned if I need it my body tells me in the morning and I eat. I find that skipping meals is not a big issue for my metabolism. In fact I feel more energized when I am carrying a light load in my tummy.
Yes studies have shown that eating less, or skipping meals, can be of benefit, as it causes release of certain hormones, but you have to train yourself to eat less, and not make eating your total enjoyment in living.
When it comes to nutrition, we tend to get bogged down in studies and what the "experts" tell us. Give me a point of view, no matter how radical, and I guarantee I can find a study to support it and one to refute it. I agree that we should listen to our bodies and let that determine whether we eat breakfast.
I do eat breakfast--not because I think it will boost my metabolism or because it will give me energy, but because it's the best way for me to get my daily intake of fruit. I eat fruit throughout the morning, and it keeps my blood sugar stable without making me feel full and heavy. For me, that's what works. Do what works for you.
breakfast
There is still the saying:
You must eat like a king in the morning.
Like a lord at midday.
Like a beggar at night..
Eating breakfast is ok after you milk the kows,gif them their feat and kleen the stables.
For breakfast we had 3 or four eggs, .5 pound of bacon, some home made bread, and mosto f the time a nice big slice of apple pie.
I'm 93. My children are gone to live in the city's with the wimps.
My bride is 91, and still raises a garden from the old kow ,chiken and pig manure pile.
