Skipping breakfast, a dangerous decision for the heart
They do not call it the most important meal of the day for nothing. To face the day in excellent shape you have to take a good breakfast that of energies for the day ahead. In fact, deciding not to sit at the table in the morning can have important negative consequences and not only at the nutritional level, health can also suffer a lot.
This is what it says American Heart Association, which indicates that skipping the breakfast It can be very harmful to the heart. Similarly, avoiding this first meal of the day also increases the risk of developing obesity and overweight.
Calories better in the morning
To reach these conclusions, the American Heart Association analyzed the data of the population and their consumption habits. Similarly they also observed if some nutrition practicess, like skipping breakfast, are related to the development of obesity and overweight. This leads to another habit for nothing healthy: eat between meals.
Skipping breakfast makes people ingest more calories throughout the day than if they had taken them in the morning. It is at this point that this body points out that it is important to plan the meals and to know the opportune moment for each of them: "When we eat it must be taken into account, in addition to what we eat".
In this sense, these professionals indicate that it is important to make the highest calorie intake in the morning instead of at night, as this will reduce the chances of suffering some type of cardiovascular disease. Those people who eat breakfast every day, and avoid meals between meals, have less risk of heart problems such as cholesterol or high blood pressure. And instead, they do not assiduously meet with this first meal of the day have more risk of obesity, poor nutrition or diabetes.
Breakfast in Spain
A good breakfast should be composed of three food groups: cereals, fruits and dairy. But nevertheless, how many homes Do you consider these recommendations of nutritionists? According to the Aladino Report few, in Spain only 3% of families ensure the presence of these three products in the first meal of the day, a low percentage.
To this percentage is added another more worrying, the number of Spanish children who go to school with their stomach practically empty. About 16% of households in this country only ensure a breakfast consisting of a glass of milk, juice and even sometimes water. A negligent practice if you consider the amount of hours of effort that the child must face with so little food in his stomach.
Damián Montero