What are the effects of not eating breakfast?

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Not eating breakfast is a hard habit to break due to many environmental factors. However, the act of skipping breakfast brings many unpredictable consequences to health. The following shares will clarify the effects when you don't eat breakfast and support plans to have a quick and convenient breakfast

1. The reason many people skip breakfast


Skipping breakfast has many reasons. However, it mostly comes from the urgent family work time that many people do not want to have breakfast. Normally, working people and students need to eat breakfast before 6:30 every day to ensure 7 o'clock attendance to start work or school. This time the body still does not feel hungry and it is quite difficult to eat breakfast at this time for most of us.
Besides the problems of timing, time is also a drawback. Busy work or urgent time makes many people not have time to prepare and eat breakfast. Over time, they form a habit and naturally breakfast no longer exists in the daily diet.
Breakfast is the main meal that is valued by many nutritionists. Skipping breakfast has a big impact on health. But some misunderstandings of weight loss diet subjects make them mistakenly believe that not eating breakfast will limit energy intake to help accelerate weight loss.

2. Harm of not eating breakfast


Breakfast is the most important meal of the day to help the body replenish the energy it needs. When you skip breakfast, you may encounter a few problems such as:
2.1 Effects on cardiovascular health when skipping breakfast for a long time When conducting a survey in some subjects who regularly skip breakfast, it was found that the only Maintaining a full breakfast had an 87% improvement in heart health. Meanwhile, it is undeniable that a part of death due to cardiovascular disease has the element of not eating breakfast.
Moreover, the study on the risk of atherosclerosis in the group of subjects who did not eat breakfast made up 67% of the total risk, while those who ate breakfast only accounted for 21% of the total. This effect is explained by the change in glycemic index. Unstable blood sugar can lead to clogged arteries. The risk of developing acute and chronic cardiovascular disease, especially stroke, was also analyzed from these factors.
2.2 People who don't eat breakfast increase the risk of type 2 diabetes When you don't eat breakfast, your body will have a metabolic disorder. Thus, the hormone that regulates metabolism is not guaranteed to cause fatigue, dizziness and increase the likelihood of diabetic syndrome. In which, women are considered to be at higher risk because they often skip breakfast.
2.3 Skipping breakfast causes the body to stagnate, lack of energy and alertness at work. Children and adolescents when not eating breakfast will disrupt the physical development process. At this stage, the body has quite a lot of nutritional needs. If not timely supplement will cause weakness, malnutrition. All nutritional problems in children cause short- or long-term memory and cognitive impairment. In the long run, people who skip breakfast will suffer from cerebral ischemia, which causes distraction and is always tired and difficult to remember.
2.4 Not eating breakfast makes the body imbalanced. Skipping breakfast means you lose half a day without energy. Breakfast has the role of providing long-term energy for half a day of activities, otherwise, the body will be exhausted.
For a long time, the body does not receive nutrition in the morning, it will weaken the immune system. The immune system is considered to be the body's shield against any harmful effects of the environment. Therefore, people who do not eat breakfast are prone to diseases and body weakness. When it reaches the level of severe weakness, it will lead to a decline in the function of internal organs.
2.5 Regularly skipping breakfast leads to the risk of gastrointestinal diseases. When there is no food to digest, the stomach still works according to the normal cycle. The amount of acid secreted to digest food will then react on the walls of the stomach and intestines. Therefore, people who skip breakfast have a higher risk of stomach ulcers.
Also, when you don't eat breakfast, you may experience unusual nausea and diarrhea. This phenomenon is explained by the body under stress when being too hungry, causing the organs to receive the wrong signals. In the long run, the digestive system will lose control and make it difficult for you to tolerate breakfast foods.
2.6 Some other harmful effects are still controversial about people skipping breakfast Except for the above harms, skipping breakfast can seriously affect the body's metabolism. The body's metabolic difficulties are the main cause of obesity. This could be bad news for those who want to lose weight by skipping breakfast.

3. Simple and quick breakfast suggestions


To solve the problem of going to work early and not having time to eat breakfast, you can refer to some of the following quick dishes:
Omelette with 2 slices of bread and a glass of milk Oats mixed with milk Cheese Whole grains Skip Breakfast does not help with weight loss but also endangers health. If you are too busy to prepare breakfast, you can choose nutritious nuts to eat right away for breakfast.

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