Scientific reasons for breakfast every morning
Breakfast is one of the most important meals of the day in the Mediterranean diet and, however, it is the great forgotten: more and more people, especially teenagers, do not have breakfast before leaving home. You are one of them? Coinciding with the Nutrition Day, we give you the scientific reasons why you must have breakfast every morning.
"For being the first meal, put the body in motion for the rest of the day." This is how William Cochran of the Amerian Academy of Pediatrics explains the importance of breakfast: "it is the most important meal of the day" but around 30% of adolescents abandon it completely in their mornings.
Why do not they want to have breakfast?
According to this American organization, most teenagers go to bed too late, in most cases because they are busy with their studies and homework, and the next morning they have a hard time waking up: the result is that finally they get up just in time to get dressed, brush their teeth and run to the institute.
In this way, lack of breakfast is also associated with not getting enough sleepAs the children get older, they tend to sleep later and, when this happens, "most prefer to sleep 15 minutes more to get up to eat a bowl of cereal," explain these pediatricians, who say that often teens " They wake up too tired or with too many causes nausea to eat. " To which is added the anxiety about the exams, which causes many to lose their appetite.
Not only that, another hypothesis is also being considered: there are adolescents who do not eat breakfast as a method to control weight gain, something that, in fact, is totally counterproductive.
Reasons to have breakfast every morning
There are more chances that skip breakfast cause weight gain that prevent it: as these experts explain, adolescents who eat breakfast daily have a lower body mass index than those who never eat breakfast or who do it occasionally.
Also, "it is known that the most important factor for predicting food excess is food insufficiency," the experts point out, adding: "Many skip breakfast and lunch, but then they come home and they do not stop eating", which in the end makes them fatter more and consume more saturated fats.
On the other hand, breakfast has benefits in school performance. According to several studies, those who eat breakfast have better performance: "they do better in school and have better concentration and more energy," they say.
In general, those who eat breakfast "have better overall health, which can be attributed to the types of foods that are usually associated with the morning meal. "This is because breakfast is the best time to eat less" easy "foods the rest of the day, as fiber in the form of cereals and breads.
Breakfast is, also, the best time to take calcium and vitamin D, that strengthen the bones, which continue to develop until age 25 and it is very important to take good care of them. Breakfast cereals, milk and yogurt are great choices for the first meal that provide these nutrients.
Therefore, there is no doubt: you have to have breakfast, even if you're in a hurry. The ideal would be to have time to sit quietly and make a good breakfast but, if it is impossible (and we know that sometimes it seems), there are always good options that facilitate the task, there are no excuses !.
Cereal bars, pieces of fruit, yoghurts or even smoothies They can be taken and taken in the car or the bus on the way to school or the institute. They are not the ideal option, but certainly much better than arriving at school without having taken anything.
Angela R. Bonachera
