General Info
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Nutrition Components
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The Importance Of Breakfast
| Breakfast – do you eat it? – YOU MUST | |
| Many experts believe breakfast to be the most important meal of the day as it kick starts your body after a night’s rest during which your energy reserves have run down and it prepares you for the day ahead. Your body and brain need something to get them going - breakfast |  |
| Breakfast - the
most important meal of the day After going 10 - 12 hours overnight without food, energy reserves are low and your body and brain need fuel. What you choose to eat at breakfast can affect your mood, physical and mental performance, weight and your general and long-term health. If you miss breakfast you are much more likely to get hungry mid morning and end up grabbing a snack that is high in calories and fat but low in nutrients and fibre. Studies show that children who regularly eat a cereal based breakfast are healthier and less likely to be overweight. In fact teenagers who ate breakfast cereals more than five times a week weighed less, had a smaller waist size and lower blood sugar levels than those who rarely ate cereal. Research among adults shows that people who eat breakfast are more likely to be within the ideal weight range than people who skip breakfast. Try our Super Breakfast, an easy and quick to prepare meal that contains all the nutrients you need to set you up for the day – and it helps you avoid mid morning snacking Teachers in Scotland reported that concentration in class improved as a result of introducing breakfast clubs while the children said that it helped them enjoy school more. But it is not just children that perform less well if they miss breakfast, other studies show that adults who ate breakfast tended to work faster, made fewer mistakes in logic tests and had better memory recall compared with breakfast skippers. This breakfast provides an important boost of vitamins, minerals and fibre, and studies show it can be difficult to make up on these nutrients if you miss the opportunity at breakfast Making time for breakfast does not have to mean missing precious time in bed, it only takes few minutes to pour some milk over a bowl of cereal. If you really don't have time to eat before you leave the house grab a healthy snack on the way to work, such as a cereal or muesli bar, a wholemeal muffin or scone or a low fat wholemeal sandwich... |
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Some other good Breakfast ingredients: · Muesli and porridge are good breakfast cereals. They contain plenty of "slow burn" starchy carbohydrates, and fibre · Fruit. Dried apricot, grapefruit, kiwi fruit, banana or orange slices will help to sweeten your cereal · Milk on your cereal provides protein and calcium. The low-fat options of semi-skimmed or skimmed are best. |
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