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The special functions of breakfast

American nutritionists recently pointed out: eating breakfast can strengthen your memory for the whole day. Children who do not eat breakfast are clearly not as good as those who have eaten breakfast when it comes to recalling and applying newly learned knowledge, and their verbal expression and short-term memory are also inferior to the latter.

The same results were found not only in malnourished children, but also apply to well-nourished children and adults.

The reason is that eating breakfast, especially a cereal breakfast rich in carbohydrates, can help increase the glucose content in the blood, thereby enhancing a person's memory. In addition, the role of breakfast is also reflected in the following:

Children who often skip breakfast are twice as likely to become obese.
Children who eat breakfast on time think more creatively.
Food eaten after breakfast time cannot replace breakfast.
Skipping breakfast easily makes people like greasy foods and overeat at lunch.



After a night's sleep, the glucose stored in the body has already been completely used up, and at this time there is an urgent need to replenish energy and nutrition. However, many working people get up too late and can only eat a little casually, or simply do not eat breakfast at all. This does save trouble, but do you know how much it affects health? After a night's rest, if the gastric acid secreted in the stomach during the night has no food to neutralize it, it will irritate the gastric mucosa and cause stomach discomfort; over time it can lead to inflammation and ulcers. If you do not eat in the morning, you cannot make up for the water and nutrients lost during the night, and as a result the viscosity of the blood increases, which is also unfavorable for the elimination of waste produced overnight, thereby increasing the risk of stones, stroke, and myocardial infarction. Because of not eating breakfast, the balanced diet the human body needs cannot be satisfied, so the energy needed in the morning can only be supplied by consuming glycogen and protein in the body; over time this will lead to dry skin, wrinkles, anemia, etc., and will also accelerate aging. When people who do not eat breakfast wait until lunch, because they feel especially hungry, they will inevitably eat more, so those who originally wanted to lose weight by skipping breakfast will instead become fatter. A reasonable breakfast should be rich in moisture and nutrition. Milk and soy milk meet the above requirements; you can choose either one, and should also add some other "dry food," because cereal foods can quickly break down into glucose in the body, correcting the low blood sugar that may occur after a night, and can improve brain vitality and the body's utilization of the nutrients in milk and soy milk. Therefore cereal foods are indispensable. But this type of food is digested quickly, and after two or three hours you will feel hungry again (especially if you eat soaked rice or porridge), so there also needs to be an appropriate amount of protein and fat, such as eggs, soy products, lean meat, peanuts, etc. In this way, not only can food stay in the stomach longer, it can also keep a person energetic throughout the whole morning. In addition, you also need to eat a little fruit and vegetables. This is not only to supplement water-soluble vitamins and fiber, but also because fruit and vegetables contain minerals such as calcium, potassium, and magnesium. They are alkaline foods and can neutralize the acid radicals produced after foods such as meat, eggs, and cereals are oxidized in the body, thus achieving acid-base balance. Breakfast should be light, not too greasy, especially fried foods, otherwise they will place too heavy a burden on the stomach and intestines and also cause excessive fat intake. Also, do not often treat instant noodles as breakfast; aside from carbohydrates, instant noodles contain very little protein, fat, vitamins, and minerals. Finally, I want to tell those who do morning exercise not to work out on an empty stomach. Before going out, it is best to drink a cup of warm sugar water or warm water with honey added (it absolutely must not be hot water, otherwise it will destroy the active ingredients in the honey). This is very important for people who do morning exercise.

You at CDU, have you eaten breakfast?

How can skipping breakfast be okay? Breakfast is a must. That's how I am.

So that's why my memory is so bad? 5555... I haven't eaten breakfast for years.

hunome, Heaven has decreed that we eat three tons of food, and you want to violate the laws of Heaven?

Same here, I've never eaten breakfast either

The following is quoted from 红色狂想 at 2003-9-22 17:44:09:
hunome, Heaven has decreed that we eat three tons of food, and you want to violate the laws of Heaven?

Three tons of food a day..... If I run into you on the street, don't say you know me... hehe

Did Heaven ever say that? Why can't I remember it...

Heaven told each of us that the moment we were born. You forgot even that? But that makes sense too—if you don't eat breakfast, your memory is bound to be bad, so you forgot Heaven's law!!!