Breakfast Matters!

Ms Priya Chaudhari explains the dangers of skipping breakfast.

- Priya Chaudhari

We have heard many times that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Breakfast is the first meal of our day and it breaks the fast we've undergone through the long hours of the night. The problem is that so many people are in a hurry and breakfast is the first thing they dismiss when they are running low on time. Here's why you should think again when you choose to skip breakfast.

When you skip breakfast

A healthy lifestyle includes eating breakfast everyday and this has been shown to promote greater health, including healthier weight, cholesterol and Diabetes management, heart health and many more. When you skip breakfast, the most important meal of the day, you're missing out on calories and nutrients that your body needs to get you through the first part of your day. Normally your body burns calories as energy, but when it doesn't get those calories, your body starts to mimic starvation mode and it begins to burn stored fat. This might sound like a good thing if you are trying to lose weight but if you go too long without food or do it on a regular basis, your body begins to break down muscle to use as energy, leading to muscle loss.

Weight gain