Weight Maintenance Myth Busted!

"Study participants who exercised before eating their first meal gained almost no weight and showed no signs of insulin resistance." Reported by a 2010 study in the Journal of Physiology.


If you've been debating about whether you should eat breakfast or skip it, debate no more. It is okay to go through the morning hours without breakfast. Everyone eat different and have different needs for food throughout the day. And this kind of claim about the mandatory breakfast pursue by many Western dietitians really put me in doubts. I am glad that such a popular myth finally get busted.

"There are a lot of forces in our society pushing against" skipping breakfast, says Mark Mattson, PhD, chief of the Laboratory of Neurosciences at the National Institute on Aging. "Those forces are driven by money. They include the food industry obviously, and in some respects the pharmaceutical industry.”

Breakfast cereals alone are an $11 billion a year industry, and that's before you get into eggs and bacon, bagels and lox, pancakes and syrup.

Now, skip breakfast will let you sleep some more in the morning, stay slim and stay younger for longer too! Ha, these are real incentives. My favorite? It is usually just a hot cup of coffee, with real sugar and hazelnut flavored cream.

You can say that I am hooked on coffee and that's why I tell myself that it is okay to have a cup of coffee for breakfast. But here's a piece of good news:

Is coffee good for our health? Although the research on America's favorite morning beverage has been mixed overall, coffee drinkers received a big boost when the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine published the largest-ever study on the topic in May.



A daily cup (or cups) of coffee, the study found, appears to be harmless and may even lower the risk of dying from chronic diseases such as diabetes. Even a one-cup-a-day habit was associated with a 5% to 6% lower risk.

On the other hand, I think that a lean and nutritious breakfast is all good. Give me some egg and toast. I won't say no, ever. Although, I usually can go without.

 

                          

  Source: Yahoo News.  Diabetic Supplies

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