Why you should not skip breakfast
What did you eat for breakfast?
You may not remember, let alone know what was in it!
The following could be why…
Did you know, intricate metabolic pathways downregulate memory and attention span when we are inactive, eat low quality food and have elevated immune activity (5)(6).
Elevated immune activity can be caused by foreign bodies in food, poor sleep quality and stress (7)(8)(9).
Exposure to low quality food occurs by consuming and acting on nutritional misinformation, social pressures, and behavioral eating patterns (10).
Nutritional misinformation is increasing (2). Food foreign bodies are increasing (3).
More people choose not to exercise or be active in the day (11).
As nutritional behaviors become “comfortable” there is a strong bias toward validating them (10).
What does this mean?
“If you increasingly do not understand what you eat, you are more likely to forget what you ate in the future.”
Re-read that again…
What do we do about it?
When we wake up, our bodies are most sensitive to the first thing we do, including what we eat! We have just burned the equivalent of a 5-mile run overnight. Give it something nourishing.
We can teach our bodies to compound toward positive nutritional behaviors. This helps offset the effects of an elevated immune system and poor dietary choices.
High fiber, some protein, maybe some dairy, diversity helps. Find what works for you, be consistent, it compounds (12)(13). Sounds simple right!
Check this out though.
Two prominent studies, one in the U.S and one in Japan, found that young adults skip breakfast more than children and the elderly!
Now it is interesting right, 10%, not much! Who cares!
But if you map what this means, biologically, it’s quite different. Nutrition is growth and repair in your body.
Young adults have the most hormonal activity. Eating breakfast is far more nutritionally beneficial, especially if you make the right choices as a young adult because you are most metabolically active.
Consistently skipping breakfast, as a young adult, puts yourself at a nutritional deficit you must make up for! If you also make poor nutritional choices, or worse, exposed to low-quality food and misinformation, you unknowingly must make up this deficit even more.
The point I am trying to make is, the graph above is not linear, it’s highly exponential. Because of the way biological systems function over time. Your dietary choices as a young person compound far more efficiently than an older person. Compounding exists in biological systems too, not just financial systems.
Today, you have enough nutritional forces working against you, don’t add another one. Don’t skip breakfast! Eat a healthy one! Your future self will thank you.
Thanks for reading!
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Stay tuned for the next blog showing how dietary choices for breakfast also influence this!
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