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You may have
heard it before, but it's worth repeating: Breakfast is and still the most
important meal of the day!
Breakfast is a critical meal because it influences practically every dimension of our being during the course of the day, including how we perform physically and mentally. Breakfast immediately raises the body’s energy level and restores the blood glucose level to normal after an overnight fast.
Skipping the first meal of the day can increase possibility for obesity more than fourfold! If you don't eat right when you wake up, your body-system perceives as famine is coming and slows your metabolism to compensate. Later on when your body is presented with food, its becomes ravenous and wants to stockpile it, leading to binge-eating with a slow metabolism—a recipe for weight gain!
According to an article written Dr John L Ivy (PhD), breakfast is the most satiating meal of the day . This satiating-effect can impact food consumption for the entire day. Researchers have found that the pattern of food intake has a dramatic effect on overall daily food consumption. This is due to the effect of our meal pattern on the release of stomach hormones that control appetite. The release of these hormones early in the morning is in part is as a result of the rise in blood cortisol and can have a sustained effect throughout the day. Therefore, eating (a larger) breakfast and reducing the blood cortisol level, lowers appetite and reduces daily food caloric intake. Research findings suggest a strong correlation between regular breakfast eating and long-term weight loss and weight maintenance. In fact, 70% of successful dieters reported eating breakfast every day lost more than 10% of their body weight and kept if off for two years.
It is quite clear that breakfast should be a major component of one’s daily nutritional plan. It raises energy level of the body, increasing vigor and vitality. It reduces blood cortisol levels and helps control appetite, which over-time, can significant impact body composition.
Your plan of action: Dr. Oz suggests automating your first meal of the day by eating the same breakfast (like an egg-white omelet or steel-cut oatmeal), or cycling through a small variety of breakfast foods each and every morning. If eating breakfast is a challenge for you, try some of these healthy 0n-the-go breakfast ideas.
Extend Nights is is one of ChrisZaremba top tenets of dieting. The body’s primary fat burning period is overnight – so create a 12-hour gap between consuming calories. If you had dinner at 8pm, don’t have breakfast (or any other calories) until 8am.
Breakfast is a critical meal because it influences practically every dimension of our being during the course of the day, including how we perform physically and mentally. Breakfast immediately raises the body’s energy level and restores the blood glucose level to normal after an overnight fast.
Skipping the first meal of the day can increase possibility for obesity more than fourfold! If you don't eat right when you wake up, your body-system perceives as famine is coming and slows your metabolism to compensate. Later on when your body is presented with food, its becomes ravenous and wants to stockpile it, leading to binge-eating with a slow metabolism—a recipe for weight gain!
According to an article written Dr John L Ivy (PhD), breakfast is the most satiating meal of the day . This satiating-effect can impact food consumption for the entire day. Researchers have found that the pattern of food intake has a dramatic effect on overall daily food consumption. This is due to the effect of our meal pattern on the release of stomach hormones that control appetite. The release of these hormones early in the morning is in part is as a result of the rise in blood cortisol and can have a sustained effect throughout the day. Therefore, eating (a larger) breakfast and reducing the blood cortisol level, lowers appetite and reduces daily food caloric intake. Research findings suggest a strong correlation between regular breakfast eating and long-term weight loss and weight maintenance. In fact, 70% of successful dieters reported eating breakfast every day lost more than 10% of their body weight and kept if off for two years.
It is quite clear that breakfast should be a major component of one’s daily nutritional plan. It raises energy level of the body, increasing vigor and vitality. It reduces blood cortisol levels and helps control appetite, which over-time, can significant impact body composition.
Your plan of action: Dr. Oz suggests automating your first meal of the day by eating the same breakfast (like an egg-white omelet or steel-cut oatmeal), or cycling through a small variety of breakfast foods each and every morning. If eating breakfast is a challenge for you, try some of these healthy 0n-the-go breakfast ideas.
Extend Nights is is one of ChrisZaremba top tenets of dieting. The body’s primary fat burning period is overnight – so create a 12-hour gap between consuming calories. If you had dinner at 8pm, don’t have breakfast (or any other calories) until 8am.
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