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Breakfast and Obesity

Research Results

The statement that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, which most of us have heard. It has been proved by researches that having breakfast makes people less prone to obesity as having meal in the morning keeps them from having heavy doses of overeating at other times of the day. With 2900 people from America ranging between 18-30 years of age a test that lasted for 10 years showed that breakfast reduces the chance of obesity by 35 to 50 percent. People are often led towards obesity and heart problems as in expectation of losing weight and guided by misconception that skipping breakfast enhances consumption of less calories each day leads to weight loss or weight maintenance, they purposely miss their meals in the morning. 

Starving that Leads to Obesity

Human biochemistry however shows that skipping meals in fact results in unsteady weight, hormonal changes along with metabolic disorders. In the starvation mode which is entered when a meal is skipped the consumed food is stored as fat in order for calorie conservation, along with many instances when fuel requirement causes muscle breakdown resulting released from broken down protein being washed away from the body with the water that the tissue cells release, which in turn results in immediate weight loss that can regained just by drinking water, without of course the regain of the lost muscles.
 
Regardless of our activities the muscles being tissues that are active metabolically need calories for daily maintenance, implying that greater muscle mass has higher calorie requirement and vice versa. Hence on losing muscle mass and slowed metabolism the calorie requirement drops but as people have tendency of going back to their previous dietary habits, they end up in regaining all the weight that was lost in most cases.

Development of insulin resistance syndrome, which is a metabolic disorder debarring the proper usage of bold sugar, has an increased chance of occurrence among people with elevated levels of sugar, blood pressure, and abdominal fat. Depriving the body from food can lead to hypoglycemia (i.e. low level of blood sugar), with the levels of insulin spiking up on introduction of food, which enhances the conversion of excess sugar into fat. Neither too much nor too less insulin, but a balanced level of insulin is suitable for a sound health.

Benefits of Breakfast

Breakfast revitalizes the tissues and provides the drive for work hence providing a better attitude to perform better as the body receives a better nutrition constituting all the vitamins and minerals that fall under the daily requirement. A study in Boston showed that children having breakfast scored better grades and had better attendance than those who skipped their breakfasts. Breakfast accelerates the metabolism and hence the consumed food is burned and used up with more rapidity, enhancing better weight control, rather than storing the food as fat that occurs in case of decelerated metabolism in starvation mode. Breakfasts should include high-fiber cereal, fruit and nonfat milk, which helps fighting obesity, diabetes and limitation on egg consumption helps reduce the chance of heart diseases.                     

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