"Breakfast means breaking the fast and it may be true that
having a good long fast is important".
"Eat breakfast like a King, lunch like a Prince and Dinner like a Pauper".
Are these quotes are right and hold true even today in this scientific age. Whether we are able to collow this in practice. In cities dinner is the heaviest meal and lunch is gulped down at desk. Beakfast is very often missed or eaten in a hury.
This common and simple quote is a great way to remember how to eat throughout the day. You should start the morning by eating a full, balanced and healthy diet with no real exemptions. As the day progresses, you should start to eat light and eat less carbs near the evening. This helps your metabolism progressively continue to work; as a result, towards the end of the day, you should sleep easily without feeling too full. Your body will continue to work throughout sleep and be ready in the morning for the cycle again. You should take
in consideration if you're a morning person or night/evening as you may have to tweak this little saying a bit.
Misconception
Many people have the misconception that skipping breakfast will help them lose weight. However, doing this may actually cause you to snack throughout the day, eat more at your next meal, and negatively impact your mood. Breakfast boosts your metabolism first thing in the morning. It curbs your hunger, prevents binge eating later in the day, and stabilizes your blood sugar. In addition, eating a fiber- rich breakfast helps you fill up and keeps you full for longer so that you do not consume extra calories throughout the day.
Most at Start But Least at The End of Day
Breakfast is the first meal of the day, and it is the meal that the body uses to top up its glucose levels after eight to twelve hours of
fasting. Glucose is vital for the brain and it’s the main energy source for the body. As well, it also fuels the muscles that are necessary for
physical activity through the day. If you skip breakfast, you will have a shorter attention span, be less alert, take longer to react, have
low blood sugar, and decreased productivity. At lunch time, eat a substantial meal to fuel you for the afternoon but make sure that it
isn’t too heavy. Essentially, it should be a medium-sized meal – smaller than breakfast but larger than dinner. If you eat a large meal at dinner, which is traditional in most homes, weight gain can occur as the body cannot use all the energy in the food and thus stores it as fat instead. A
heavy meal at dinner can also cause sleep disturbances. We need the most energy at the beginning of the day, and the least energy at the end, when most daily tasks are over and we are relaxing.
Eat according to the needs of your day. If you have an office or other sedentary jobs, eat lighter meals. If your job is more active, eat
foods that provide sustained energy.If you are very athletic and train hard, then you will need more nourishment towards the end of the day,
to sustain your training needs.
Body Clock Controls Metabolism
Research has shown that the body’s ability to make use of the sugar in food fluctuates throughout the day, in tune with the body’s own clock.
And if the body clock is disturbed, it is easy to put on weight. We could benefit from timing their meals to be in tune the body clock.
This would mean lunch being the biggest meal of the day. The evening meal should be light and post-dinner snacks avoided. If food is eaten at the wrong time of day, the body stores more fat. The biological clock controls our metabolism, so the way in which we metabolise the same foods during the day and night is different.
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