Blog3: Break Your Fast

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Eating a healthy breakfast has numerous benefits. As there is an old saying “Eat Breakfast Like a King, Lunch Like a Prince, and Dinner Like a Pauper.”

Breakfast provides the body and brain with fuel after an overnight fast - that's where its name originates, breaking the fast! Without breakfast, you are effectively running on empty, like trying to start the car with no petrol!

Breakfast should be eaten within two hours of waking up. A healthy breakfast should provide calories in the range of 25-35% of your recommended daily allowance.

Regular breakfast consumption seems to increase satiety, reduce total energy intake, improve overall dietary quality, reduce blood lipid, and improve insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance. Many studies have linked eating breakfast to good health, including better memory and concentration, lower levels of “bad” LDL cholesterol, and lower chances of getting diabetes, heart disease, and being overweight. Breakfast is the first meal of the day, people who eat breakfast daily have a higher level of metabolism. Breakfast gives your metabolism a jump start.

Skipping breakfast in the morning can throw off your body's rhythm of fasting and eating. Also skipping breakfast peps up the craving for junk foods and you may not able to ignore your hunger, the higher your hunger levels, the more sugary or junk food you'll consume that can lead to weight gain. It also reduces your metabolism and induces may health problems like fatigue, diabetes, hypertension, heart diseases, and other such kind of problems.

• When choosing what to eat at breakfast, try to eat whole foods that are full of nutrients. A balanced breakfast consists of protein, fiber, and healthy fats. Examples include eggs, yogurt, oatmeal, fruits, unprocessed cereals, multigrain bread or toast, sprouts, and nuts (almonds & walnuts, 2-4 a day).  Avoid sugary cereals, white bread, and other highly processed foods. If you are serious about your health, it is important that you make a regular breakfast consumption a regular aspect of your daily routine.

Breakfast is like meditation, if you make time for it in the morning, you'll feel great and energetic throughout the day. So, have your breakfast daily and reduce the chances of developing health complications.

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