Skipping breakfast might save you time, but it's
not saving you anything else. Turns out eating
that first meal of the day is actually useful for
your body AND your mind.
Among the many reasons you shouldn't skip it,
eating breakfast can actually make you smarter.
Here are three reasons why you shouldn't skip
breakfast.
1. Glucose is simple sugar used as an energy
source in our body, and without enough
glucose, your body can't perform regular
functions as well, or sometimes at all. So, eating
breakfast gives you the initial boost of glucose
you need to start your day, but that's not all.
2. A 16-year-long study by the Harvard School
of Public Health found people who said they
skipped breakfast regularly were more
susceptible to heart attacks or death from
coronary heart disease.
3. Even in people without diabetes, breakfast
can have a pretty big impact on your blood
sugar.
After a healthy breakfast your blood sugar
increases a little bit, but it will take a while for
your body to absorb it, so you might not be
hungry for lunch for 5 hours.
Eating breakfast isn't just preventative, it can
also help you do more stuff. In a recent study
published in the American Journal of Clinical
Nutrition, people who ate breakfast were more
physically active during the morning than people
who didn't.
So take the extra few minutes to prep yourself
a healthy, easy-to-eat breakfast. Your body will
thank you.
not saving you anything else. Turns out eating
that first meal of the day is actually useful for
your body AND your mind.
Among the many reasons you shouldn't skip it,
eating breakfast can actually make you smarter.
Here are three reasons why you shouldn't skip
breakfast.
1. Glucose is simple sugar used as an energy
source in our body, and without enough
glucose, your body can't perform regular
functions as well, or sometimes at all. So, eating
breakfast gives you the initial boost of glucose
you need to start your day, but that's not all.
2. A 16-year-long study by the Harvard School
of Public Health found people who said they
skipped breakfast regularly were more
susceptible to heart attacks or death from
coronary heart disease.
3. Even in people without diabetes, breakfast
can have a pretty big impact on your blood
sugar.
After a healthy breakfast your blood sugar
increases a little bit, but it will take a while for
your body to absorb it, so you might not be
hungry for lunch for 5 hours.
Eating breakfast isn't just preventative, it can
also help you do more stuff. In a recent study
published in the American Journal of Clinical
Nutrition, people who ate breakfast were more
physically active during the morning than people
who didn't.
So take the extra few minutes to prep yourself
a healthy, easy-to-eat breakfast. Your body will
thank you.
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