Skipping breakfast
Jan 29th, 2008 by Susan
For this whole process to work smoothly and efficiently, you need a regular supply of nutrients. For instance, if you go too long without eating, the level of glucose in your blood drops. You have less strength, and you get tired more easily. Tests have shown that when people skip breakfast, they become fatigued, less alert, less energetic, and more irritable later in the morning. Their reaction times slows down. Students become less interested in school work, and their grades go down.
Unfortunately, skipping breakfast is a very bad way to get rid of fat. In the first place, it puts a strain on your whole system, including your digestive system. Your stomach goes on producing acids to use in digesting food. If there’s no food for them to work on, these acids become irritating to the stomach itself. When your stomach becomes irritated, you become irritated!
In the second place, you are depriving your body of some important nutrients it can’t store - including vitamin C.
In the third place, people who skip breakfast often end up gaining weight rather than losing it!
How can you gain weight by skipping meals ?
People who skip breakfast usually do so because they “aren’t hungry when they get up,” or they “don’t have time”, or they “don’t like breakfast foods”. But they usually are hungry later on - hungrier than they would have been if they’d had breakfast. So they are likely to eat more for lunch. Worse yet, they may satisfy their hunger before lunch with a snack that is high in calories and low in other badly needed nutrients
