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The Convenient Inconvenience that is Breakfast |
The alarm clock rings and you know you have to get up. So do your thing cause you still have to make breakfast. No? But you have to eat something? Oh, okay. That's convenient.
This is probably something that usually goes through your mind everyday you wake up. The decision being wether to be inconvenienced by a tediously prepared breakfast or just hop on along to the nearest fast food joint and pay for one there.
You might not realize that eating after waking up means that you’re replenishing your body from the previous night’s fast. You’re literally breaking the fast, and you don’t need unhealthy foods shoved into a body that’s already depleted. Besides if you eat a healthy breakfast, you’ll maintain your weight, and your mental functions throughout the day will be chipper too. Eating a healthy breakfast just makes common sense, and your body will love you for choosing one.
Many people eat breakfast cereal to start their day off, but most breakfasts of this type are not healthy at all. Most grain based cereals don’t have the correct amount of complex carbohydrates that the body needs. Fiber has a lot of these types of carbohydrates, but most cereals have fine grain in them without the other bulkier substance that makes you healthy. For a healthy breakfast you need over 30 grams of fiber, and it should consist of soluble and insoluble fiber.
Fiber is an element which makes bowel movement smoother. They reduce chances of contracting colon and intestinal cancers. Insoluble fiber works by sucking water into the intestines, and it eases passing stools. Soluble fiber in a healthy breakfast plays an important role too because the stomach contents won’t empty too fast. Apart from preventing cancers, fibers have also been shown to reduce incidents of heart disease and diabetes.
Processed cereals don’t help you because they are loaded with sugar, and often don’t contain the right amounts of potassium. Doctors recommend supplementing your healthy breakfast with a fruit like a banana that’s high in this necessary vitamin. If you’re a man you need to be concerned with having a good proportion of the mineral selenium in your healthy breakfast because this too cuts down on the risk of colon cancer.
Eating a healthy breakfast is not a past time, or a hobby or a habit. It's a requirement. Your empty body draws energy from it at the start of the day. Whatever your body gets is what it uses. If it can't get the right mineral or vitamin, what will it use? Don't think of breakfast as something with which to tide you over your hunger. It doesn't work that way. |
