Why Is Breakfast Important?
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2018-10-13
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https://totallychefs.com/articles/why-is-breakfast-important
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Eating breakfast can help you to get the recommended daily values of various nutrients essential to good health.
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Eating breakfast can help you to get the recommended daily values of various nutrients essential to good health.
Why Is Breakfast Important?
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- Raise the risk for heart disease. Skipping breakfast is associated with an increased risk for obesity, metabolic syndrome, elevated triglycerides, high LDL-cholesterol, and low HDL-cholesterol (all risk factors for cardiovascular disease) in children. A large study published in the journal Circulation followed over 20,000 men for 16 years, and found that those men who skipped breakfast were 27% more likely to develop coronary heart disease.
- Lead to weight gain. In a large study on thousands of children and adolescents, breakfast skippers had higher BMIs and waist circumferences than those who ate breakfast regularly. There were also higher rates of obesity among breakfast skippers. In one study, people who moved a large percentage of their energy intake to their morning meal had lower weights (as well as improved insulin function) compared to people who ate most of their energy later in the day.
- Impair cognitive abilities and academic performance in children.Children who regularly eat breakfast have higher IQs than those who only eat breakfast on occasion. Regular breakfast consumption is associated with better behavior in school and better academic performance, including better grades and achievement test scores. School breakfast programs, where kids are given free breakfast before school, are associated with positive academic achievement as well.
- Increase the risk for diabetes. There is a wide body of evidence showing that consuming breakfast regularly can protect against type 2 diabetes. A large meta-analysis of studies found that people who skip breakfast have a 15% to 21% higher chance of developing type 2 diabetes compared to those people who eat breakfast regularly.
- Hurt your bone health. Breakfast consumption can also help protect your bones. In a study following male Japanese medical students, skipping breakfast was identified as a major lifestyle factor that contributed to bone mineral density loss.