It's your mom and dad's exquisite breakfast, and a cup of coffee is your fool's breakfast. You, who struggle with bed and work every day, always leave your breakfast behind and are constantly counted down by your parents.
Does skipping breakfast have any effect on our bodies?
You must have seen the disadvantages of skipping breakfast in health articles. But for now, the vast majority are inconclusive.
First of all, the point that skipping breakfast leads to gaining weight is controversial.
Indeed, a number of observational studies have shown that people who do not eat breakfast will generally have higher weight, waist circumference, etc.
Our body secretes a variety of hormones to control appetite. Among them, the stomach ghrelin will be secreted in large quantities when you are on an empty stomach, telling you that you are hungry. Peptide YY (PYY) in the intestines will enhance satiety and advise you not to eat too much.
If you don't eat breakfast, you have significantly higher levels of ghrelin over 4 hours, while peptide YY continues to decline, which may mean you'll eat more in the next few meals.
But studies have found that while skipping breakfast makes people feel hungrier, this doesn't make them energy-compensated at lunch, but instead produces at least 400 kcal of calorie difference because of eating less.
Moreover, rigorous randomized controlled trials have also found that the causal relationship between skipping breakfast and obesity is not established.
The second misconception about skipping breakfast is that there will be gallstones.
The body's bile is secreted by the liver and stored and concentrated in the gallbladder, and food can stimulate the contraction of the gallbladder and promote bile to drain into the intestines to aid digestion.
When we fast for a long time, the movement of the gallbladder is reduced, which will lead to the accumulation of bile. Especially after 15 hours of fasting, the main component of gallstones, cholesterol, reaches its peak and is easy to precipitate and precipitate crystals, which may theoretically increase the risk of gallstones.
However, it should be noted that the possible factor for gallstones is not skipping breakfast, but on an empty stomach. If you eat dinner at 7 p.m. and have breakfast before 10 p.m. the next day to break your fasting, it's a good choice. But if you're eating a late-night snack at 12 p.m., it might not matter if you eat breakfast or not.
In fact, gender, obesity, age, diet, family history, etc. are the definitive risk factors for gallstones rather than skipping breakfast.
For example, gallstones have a certain relationship with the intake of refined sugar and saturated fat. The data shows that on average, male gallstone patients eat about 15 grams of fat and 20 grams of sugar per day than healthy people. In other words, when your breakfast is always high-oil and high-sugar foods such as fritters and fried cakes, the risk of gallstones may be greater.
The third controversy about skipping breakfast is stomach damage.
You must be familiar with this kind of news. But at present, there is no evidence that stomach cancer can be obtained without breakfast.
Theoretically, if you're a person who eats breakfast every day, your stomach will secrete stomach acid on time every morning. When you suddenly start not eating, the stomach acid is overwhelmed, you will "digest" the protective gastric mucosal layer, making your stomach uncomfortable.
But it's not so much a pot that doesn't eat breakfast, it's more a recipe for an irregular diet.
In fact, eating breakfast was not uniform in the past.
In ancient China, due to the habit of living at sunrise and sunset, breakfast was once regarded as a "big food" to replenish energy.
In Western countries, breakfast was neglected for a long time, but dinner was the most sumptuous. The saying that breakfast is the most important meal of the day did not appear in health magazines until 1917. It is worth mentioning that the operator of this magazine is Kellogg, the founder of the instant cereal brand.
In order to promote ready-to-eat cereal, Kellogg and other merchants continued to market the importance of breakfast, which gradually changed the way people thought about breakfast. Therefore, the matter of eating breakfast or not really varies from time to time and from person to person.
For you, instead of whether you should eat breakfast or not, you should pay more attention to regular eating habits when you have conditions.
There is a "biological clock" in everyone's body, the optic supercussal nucleus in the brain controls everything as the main clock, and each organ has its own clock inside. They can be used to regulate behavior and physiological activity to adapt to changes in the environment.
When you eat irregularly, the peripheral clock affected by food signals will be misaligned with the main clock, thus causing harm to the body.
For example, if you often eat a late-night snack two hours before going to bed, not only is the chance of gaining weight five times more than ordinary people, but it is also easy to damage your glucose tolerance and increase the risk of diabetes.
Similarly, if you are always hungry and your energy intake is unbalanced, the higher the risk of developing metabolic syndrome.
Therefore, parents love to urge you to eat, may not really take the health article as a guide, but hope that you develop fixed eating habits and have a healthy body.
You must have a lot of questions to ask about health.
Soy milk, milk, goat milk, which is more nutritious and healthy to drink for breakfast?
How many years has drinking eight glasses of water a day deceived you?
What time of day do you sleep to stay up late?
What happened to those who drank coffee for a long time?