Ryu Kei Shou Kawazu
http://www.healthylifestyleart.com/want-to-lose-weight-dont-skip-breakfast
Hehe. Now to explain why teachers don't let you use Wikipedia for school projects. Please excuse the rather long post.
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1. Breakfast wakes up your metabolism. If you skip breakfast, your body responds to not eating for hours and hours by slowing down it’s metabolic rate. By eating breakfast you wake up your metabolism and your body starts to burn those calories which you need to burn to lose weight.
Metabolism doesn't stop or slow down simply because you don't eat every 8 hours. It stays constant for a
long time before it slows down. By the time it would start doing some damage, you would have already eaten and thus avoided the metabolic "crash" you're thinking of. The people who do ridiculous water fasts for three days at a time, they are the ones that suffer this metabolic crash as a result of calorie avoidance for over 24 hours at a time. Just the average "skipping breakfast" routine will not harm your metabolism in any way.
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2. Eating breakfast helps to lose weight. Researchers have repeatedly shown that people who eat breakfast have a better chance of losing weight, and keeping it off. When you skip meals, you’re so hungry by lunchtime you’d eat an entire cow! Research carried out at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh has shown that eating breakfast cereal in the morning helps aid weight loss.
It's no wonder you'd want to eat breakfast like most people. If you eat six times a day, you will be hungry six times a day. If you eat once a day, you'll be hungry once a day. I don't eat breakfast or lunch, so I don't have to worry about excessive hunger throughout the day. It's a bodily conditioning kind of thing. Once you get used to eating less, you will eat less and not become hungry. It's not that hard to get over hunger pangs.
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3. Breakfast increases the productivity of your mind. Breakfast helps wake you up. Studies show that people who eat breakfast are more alert and do better on tests than people who skip breakfast.
It's not the food that's waking you up, it's the sugar. If you're fatigued in the morning, eat a piece of candy. It will have the same effect as a bowl of cereal or whatever. Again, I am conditioned against eating breakfast, so I'm never really fatigued in the morning, just the usual tired feeling that comes with waking up at the crack of dawn. Interestingly enough, fasting is well-known for its effects on the mind. Warriors in particular are known to fast before battles to provide clarity of mind, and fasting has been used in religious practices for the same effect.
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4. Breakfast is your chance to eat the foods you may not eat the rest of the day. The total calories received by midday, the body burns. So if you really want to enjoy a pastry, better do it at breakfast than at night.
I don't know where that idea even stems from. Does this mean that I should hoard buckets of ice cream in the morning because I'll just work it off in time for lunch? That's a pretty far out notion. Your body burns off calories throughout the day just sustaining vital functions, and the rest of it is burned through physical exercise or stored. So unless you're a couch potato and don't even attempt to exercise once in awhile, you will burn off most calories whenever you are most active. If I decide to eat dinner and then work out before bed, I will have burned off many calories while my dinner digested, and created a calorie deficit suitable for my dinner. The food would digest while I sleep and keep me satisfied throughout the day until my next meal, all without adding fat. People who eat lots before bed compared to people who eat huge breakfasts are also less likely to gain weight in general. For this, I refer you to the wonderfully researched LeanGains article on
late night eating.
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5. Skipping breakfast makes you irritable. Studies show that people who eat breakfast tend to be in better moods (when I’m hungry – watch out!). Breakfast gets you started on the right track for the day. If you start out with a healthy breakfast, then you set the mood for lunch. You’re more likely to choose something reasonable for lunch if you’ve paid some attention to your breakfast choices.
This is basically the same thing as #2 above. You won't be irritable if you control your body. You also will be less likely to eat something gross and sugary if you control the hunger and in general eat healthy like you're supposed to. Cane sugar was never meant to be a part of your everyday diet.
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6. If you’re parent, show a good example. By skipping breakfast, your kids will think it’s not important. The whole family can sit together around, not just dinner, but at the breakfast table. Make it a habit, and it will be a big deal for all of you.
Breakfast isn't all that important anyway, but okay. I know I don't want to make a big deal out of eating in the morning, probably because it's not important and my not being a morning person makes me a bit pissy when I wake up. The last thing I want to do is be one of those smug morning people I despise for being so cheery in the morning.
stare But this one is just more of me playing the devil's advocate than anything.