BREAKFAST

Why is it called Breakfast?  I've always wondered.

According to Wikipedia, the word Breakfast "literally means break the fast of the night."
Hmm, makes sense. Hopefully most of us are sleeping 6-8 hours a night and not eating in those hours.
So when we wake up our bodies are pretty cranky for food and we need to feed it!

Also from Wikipedia- "Nutritional experts have referred to breakfast as the most important meal of the day, citing studies that find that people who skip breakfast are disproportionately likely to have problems with concentration, metabolism, and weight.^[3][4]"

 

Wow. So what does breakfast do for you? Well it starts your metabolism! Imagine this: Instead of driving your car to work, you push it because we don't know how to start it. Although it might be a great workout, it's not the most efficient way to get to work because- #1: It takes longer to get there. #2: It uses more energy, therefore you have less energy for the rest of the day. Well when you don't start your metabolism by skipping breakfast your body does the same thing!#1: Takes longer to get going- to wake up (that feeling like you need caffeine to function).  #2: It takes more energy to do things, since you didn't fill up the gas tank and therefore have no energy to do the important things in the day like: work, exercise, talk to people, walk, think, remember things, etc. The list goes on and on.

 Going back to the original meaning, as mentioned above, the point of the meal is to break the fast of the night. How many hours of sleep did you get last night? 4? 6? 8? Well no matter, try going that long in the day and see if you can not eat- IT'S REALLY HARD!! So by the time you wake up, your body is longing for that egg burrito, or protein shake.  BUT if you skip breakfast, add that many more hours to lunch to hours of sleep OH and don't forget to also add the hours from dinner the night before... that might be more than 12 hours!!

 This is a problem! Only leaving yourself about 6 hours of blessed sunlight to eat ALL of the nutritional goodness your body needs to function! No wonder weight loss doesn't happen, or we are sick all the time or any other weird phenomenon with the body. 

(Okay so the number of hours between dinner and breakfast may not count as much because that is when digestion happens and it is better for it to happen before you go to bed so all the energy can be concentrated on sleep.Also it takes up to 7 hours to digest food so we need a break for eating sometime.) Breakfast is still important. It ends the digestion period. and.....

Even so, consider starting your car, rather than pushing it.

Well I hope that puts a little perspective on BREAKFAST. and why it is CRUCIAL that we eat it. 

What are some reasons you don't eat breakfast?

Post them in the comments. Let's learn together how to make changes to eat breakfast every day and any other unknown things about breakfast.