Breakfast is the first meal of the day as it helps
everyone start the day off on the right foot. Eating breakfast not only fills one
up in the morning, but it also improves concentration and memory, and keeps
people healthier. Eating breakfast also reduces the risk of having diabetes and
or having a heart attack, and helps to maintain a healthy weight.
According
to an article in the scientific journal Physiology
& Behavior, an experiment by Loughborough University(1) showed
that eating breakfast improves concentration. Students who ate nutritional
balanced breakfasts reported better concentration and more positive reactions
to difficult tasks in the morning and throughout the day. Those students (who
ate breakfast) showed twice as much concentration as the students who did not
eat breakfast. They also had a faster memory recall that was about 75% faster than students who did not eat breakfast, showing that eating breakfast improved more positive reactions and faster memory recall.
Web
MD(3) and the American Journal of Epidemiology(4) suggests that eating breakfast keeps people healthier over all. Having food in one’s stomach
helps every system in the body function properly. It stops the body from
hoarding food and gaining excess weight. Eating breakfast allows the body to
regulate its system not just in the morning but also throughout the day.
BBC News' Dr. Mark Pereira(2) showed that breakfast, in addition to keeping up general health, also reduces
the risk of having diabetes and or having a heart attack. Eating breakfast
helps to balance the body’s systems, which is what the body needs to maintain
good health. Overall good health puts less stress on the body allowing it to
produce all of the insulin it needs to function properly.
Eating
breakfast helps the body in so many beneficial ways that it would be hard to imagine skipping
it. The positive feedback our bodies give us in return for eating a healthy breakfast turns the foods we choose into a breakfast of champions.
Citations
- Simon B. Cooper, Stephan Bandelow, and Mary E. Nevill “Breakfast consumption and cognitive function in adolescent schoolchildren” Physiology & Behavior Volume 103, Issue 5, 6 July 2011 <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031938411001375>
- "Breakfast is the most important meal" <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2824987.stm>
- "The many benefits of breakfast" Kathleen M. Zelman, MPH, RD, LD, <http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/many-benefits-breakfast>
- <http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/158/1/85.full>
