Many of us only drink coffee in the morning with the first meal at noon or even later. However, eating breakfast can help with weight loss. Let’s look at why as well as some ideas for healthy breakfasts.
Dr. Marina
Why eat breakfast?
Our body produces many digestive enzymes to digest food, and most of them are produced in the first two hours after waking up! If no food is ingested during this time, the enzymes are broken down and are effectively "gone." If your first meal is at noon, your digestion will not work as well as if you had eaten earlier in the day. Your morning enzymes are supposed to process about 25 % of your food for the day. If that's not happening, your GI tract is already operating sub-optimally, and no amount of healthy lunch can fix that.
What to eat for breakfast
What we eat in the morning is the best-digested food. Therefore, breakfast should consist of foods that allow a long sense of satiety. Here are five examples.
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