Okay, we’re all familiar with the line “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.” I believe I was about ten when I first heard it, and my immediate thought was: “Of course! if you never have breakfast, you eventually starve to death.”
Because not having breakfast means never breaking your fast, and NEVER breaking your fast effectively means Hunger Strike, followed by inevitable death (I am using the absolutist value of NEVER, here). Huhr, huhr, geddit?
But the actors in white coats portraying nutritionists in the breakfast food commercials keep saying the line with a straight face. So, is there something more to the assertion than a play on words? And if so, what is that something?
A proper breakfast keeps your blood sugar levels stable, preventing wild swings and uncontrollable hunger towards lunchtime, and it also keeps your metabolism from panicking and storing more food as fat because you’ve starved it for over twelve hours by not eating breakfast.
I think it all depends on what you’re used to. I know I’ve said this before and I know there are a couple of others on here like this; I only eat an evening meal. Have done this for probably a couple of decades, now. My BP is awesome as are my cholesterol levels. I’m 42, 5 feet 2 and right in line with my weight. Every now and then I’ll have a salad or some veggies for lunch, just to fit in or appease my Mom (I know, I know! :rolleyes:)
I think that’s a wildly outside-the-lines interpretation of the message being delivered. Not having breakfast means not eating a meal typically associated with eating in the morning (and buying those associated foods…).
If the only meal you eat every day is a ham sandwich at noon, only the most pedantic people in the world would insist on being as literal as absolutely possible and call it “breakfast”.
I’m slim. I try to eat healthy at least one meal a day. I’m really not hungry for breakfast, although I will eat a snack around 10 AM. I let my stomach decide what it wants (within reason.)
