Breakfast is the Most important Meal of the Day

  Breakfast Is the Most Important Meal

FACTS

Breakfast provides the energy needed to start off the day right!

A healthy breakfast consists of milk, fruits and cereal. Children who eat a good breakfast performa better at school, pay more attention , are more creative, think better, score higher in tests.

Children who eat breakfast are less likely to be overweight. Studies show that kids who skip breakfast lose up to a quarter of their daily intake of essential vitamins and minerals directly impacting energy levels, memory and focus.

WHAT HAPPEN TO OUR BODY WHEN WE SKIP BREAKFAST?

It is amazing how you are usked to skipping breakfast, you condition yourself to feel "ok" but a close examination of your 'fasting' mood would reveal that your kevel of energy is low. What happens is that your body is rested at the end of a good sleep but you still the energy after you wake up.

Your body does not stop just because you go to sleep.It goes on breathinh, digesting, pumping blood everywhere in your body.It constantly needs you food and even if you are not hungry early in the morning your body will still need extra energy contained in a breakfast meal. It make sense, doesn't it?But breakfast is more than an energy source. Breakfast is giod for you because it provides glucose to your brain making you mentally efficient and alert.You get 'the edge' by 'breakfast'. Reduces the cholesterol level. Gives you vital nutrients and vitamins, makes you slimmer by jump starting your metabolism which is slow after relative inactivity at night.Makes you 'Mr or Mrs Happy'. an enegized and balanced meal may alter your mood and makes you feel better during the day.

WHY BREAKFAST IS GOOD FOR YOU

Almost everybody knows that 'breakfast is the most important meal of the day', if it is not good .......how come many people skip breakfast? People do. There are alot of excuses for not hbing breakfast e.g lack of time , not being a morning person,trying to lose some weight,not finding anything good for breakfast and having forgotten to have it.

WHAT TO HAVE FOR BREAKFAST?

The opposite of skipping breakfast (and possibly too much of it,too!) every meal is capable of givibg you energy. The question is"how long will that energy last"? This is important to know because that will determine whether you still feel 'charged up' till lunch time or whether you are starving by 10a.m.Avoid oily things, junkfood etc.Their energy levels are high but short lived and the residual makes ou bigger and heavier.So these foods are a NO!NO!. Fresh fruits and cereals are a healthier choice,but you have to be mondful of the sugar contained in cereals.Some of then can have enough sugar which a whole family can have in one single serving!But what if you are not "A breakfast person"? There are no such things as a "breakfast person", if you need to do something for yourself,you do it, and you can condition yourself to the habit of having breakfast a part of your life and take pleasure in it .Buy fruits and cereals.Help children plan ahead.To have interesting and tasty meals for breakfast that will help enjoy it.But whatever you do..........

Do have a Breakfast!