There are many benefits to eating breakfast. Many say this is the most important meal of the day. When eating in the morning it has a positive effect on your health as well as your kids.
Top Ten Reasons To Eat Breakfast:
- Eating a healthy breakfast lowers your LDL (aka bad cholesterol) which lowers your risk for heart disease.
- Increases your metabolic rate.
- Provides a better attention span, focus and better activity.
- Improves the ability to control weight.
- Breakfast restores your sugar levels after up to 12 hours of not eating.
- Getting essential nutrients you need that you wouldn’t get by not eating breakfast.
- Increases memory and learning.
- Improves Mood.
- Reduces stress.
- Calorie Cutting. People that don’t eat breakfast tend to eat more calories.
If you don’t have time to eat breakfast keep these three types of food in mind:
- Whole Grains for energy and fiber.
- Fruit for even more fiber and for vitamin power.
- Protein for lasting energy.
After reading the importance of breakfast and all the benefits. I can tell you that I will eat breakfast more then I do. What about you?
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Our kids need to read your post, too. We do the whole grains but we need more variety.
I love it! I am always telling my husband why he shouldn't skip breakfast and he never believes me. I am sending him this post. Thanks for writing good stuff, Stacie!
Thanks for sharing this information. I am really bad about skipping breakfast. Guess I should make a better effort at it.
I need to learn to incorporate more whole grains.
LOL! I never knew how many benefits there were to eating breakfast. I found it very interesting. Now I try not to skip it.
I hear you there! There are days I am too busy and I forget about breakfast. After reading that I try a little harder to eat breakfast.
I need to learn to incorporate more whole grains.
LOL! I never knew how many benefits there were to eating breakfast. I found it very interesting. Now I try not to skip it.
I hear you there! There are days I am too busy and I forget about breakfast. After reading that I try a little harder to eat breakfast.