Healthy Breakfast

It provides your body with all vital nutrients.

It provides your body with energy.

It provides your body with water.

It provides your body with plenty of antioxidants.

It helps to maintain a normal blood sugar level. Your blood sugar is controlled because you will not experience the blood sugar swing.

It is one of the tricks to lose weight.

Your healthy breakfast feeds your cells, not just your stomach. It helps you control your hunger and cravings. It helps you improve your mood because you feel great from inside out!!!

Know more on how your breakfast affects your day. Read more below.

Break your fast!

What you ate yesterday consists of two major groups. The first group supplies energy (proteins, fats, and carbohydrates). The second group supplies building materials (protein, amino acids, vitamins, and minerals). You spent energy yesterday when you were awake, and your body used the building materials at night to regenerate healthy cells.

Besides, your body has spent 1 liter of water during the night through breathing, sweating, and morning visit to the bathroom.

So your body wakes up "empty" in the morning and on behalf of 100 trillion cells tells you, "Hey, start giving me my supply of nutrients, energy, and water for today." You may not feel hungry or thirsty in the morning, but it's just a matter of time. Your body is craving for a healthy breakfast!

And now let's see what you are giving your body in the morning: pastries, donut, toast with jam, and coffee with sugar. These are simple carbohydrates, which when digested, rapidly turn into blood sugar. These are carbohydrates and processed foods, which are high in fats and calories. They are not good for your colon (or large intestine).

Your body wakes up in the morning and asks for vital nutrients and water, and you give it sugar and fats instead.

Or worst, you are skipping breakfast!

What happens to your blood sugar?

Now you are feeling hungry and weak as your brain lacks sugar. That's the reason behind cravings. To overcome hunger, you again crave for simple carbohydrates (chocolate, sweet coffee, sandwiches, sweets, cookies, doughnuts, soft drinks, and juices, and so on). This again raises your blood sugar level and free you of hunger and weakness. Each sugar "injection" is followed by the insulin surge. Insulin stimulates hunger. When your body overproduces insulin, you tend to eat more food.

This cycle repeats itself several times a day and you develop dependence on carbs. The excess of carbs makes the pancreas work at constant overload. It's one of the major reasons for developing diabetes, high blood pressure, and excess weight. Besides, excess blood sugar damages blood vessels in your body. Excessive sugar will be again and again turned into extra fats. Avoid all these and start your day with a healthy breakfast!

Info bits: According to the World Heart Association, "Type 2 diabetes is a major risk factor for coronary heart disease and stroke. Having diabetes makes you twice as likely as someone who does not develop cardiovascular disease. If you do not control diabetes then you are more likely to develop cardiovascular disease at an earlier age than other people and it will be more devastating."

A look at different kinds of breakfast

Don't forget to measure yourself and learn about villi health for better nutrient absorption.

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