When I wake up in the morning I am always starving and craving something unhealthy for breakfast, something like waffles and pancakes. I love eating breakfast because it is my favorite meal of the day. The best is when at home sometimes we had breakfast for dinner. To me breakfast is comfort food and makes my belly happy. The fact that I have always ate breakfast was good because we all know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but I am curious as to why?
Just as I thought, breakfast is a very important meal because it gives one energy and nutrients to participate in the day such as in classes and during the work hours. According to John Hopkins we could miss the daily amount of vitamins that we get from our breakfast. It also mentions that for someone to have a healthy body weight they shouldn’t skip breakfast. One reason for that is because people might snack unhealthily until lunch.Harvard School Of Public Health conducted a Study that evaluated the importance of eating breakfast. Their hypothesis was if skipping a meal like breakfast would influence coronary heart disease (DHD). To do this they looked into eating habits. They found that men who missed breakfast had a 27% increased risk of CHD. Then they looked at the men who snacked and ate at night had a 55% high risk of CHD. There was no correlation between the amounts of times someone ate in the day to the increased risk of CHD. The conclusion was that eating breakfast significantly lowered the risk of CHD.
Harvard School of Public Health conducted another study on 46,289 women over six years to look at their health outcomes from their eating habits. Their conclusion was that the women that occasionally skipped breakfast had a 20% increased risk of being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Women who skipped breakfast more often than occasionally had a 54% increased risk of being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Also inWomen’s Health it talks about another study that found that skipping breakfast increases chances of obesity and high blood pressure.
Now I know that eating breakfast is really good for me as long as I make the healthy choices. A lot of information that I read was that for a healthy body weight eating breakfast is really good. That is only true if the breakfast options are healthy and more for the nutrients and victims rather than the carbohydrates and sugar. Yes Eggo waffles are good, but so is a scrambled egg with spinach and onions. I love eating breakfast also because is does give me more energy which is why I always had a healthy breakfast before taking the SAT. I also learned that eating breakfast will decrease my risk of getting diabetes will protect my heart from future problems and will lower my chance of obesity.
Very interesting post. As someone who has not eaten breakfast since I was in middle school, this study really opened my eyes. I would rather use that time that I would be eating breakfast (about a half hour), to sleep a little longer. In high school, I always ate an early lunch, so there was no reason to mess up my routine of not eating breakfast, since I could make it to lunch easily without being starving. Now that I know that I am not preforming at my peak ability due to me not eating breakfast, maybe I will consider eating breakfast a little more often (probably not though, as I really value my sleep)
I found this post to be very interesting because I also wondered why breakfast would be the most important. In my mind, lunch would be the most important because otherwise one is going SO long without eating but your explanation of the energy that it provides helped me understand the importance of starting off the day with a meal. The study from the Harvard School of Public Health, which you talked about, seemed to make for sense for the most part. My one question is, if someone were to skip breakfast but DIDN’T snack unhealthily till lunch, would it still have such a negative effect?