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Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day? C1 & C2, The…

- - - - Cahill documented 27% patient who had coronary heart disease amongst North American are those people who failed to take breakfast regularly
      - people who skip breakfast tend to overeat the rest of the time- overeating will lead to unwanted weight gain, which can lead to high cholesterol and blood pressure issues.
        
        One recent study looked at nutrition surveys of 6,550 U.S. residents ages 40 to 75, none of whom had a history of cardiovascular disease. Just 5.1% said they never ate breakfast. In follow-ups with the people about 18 years later — by which time 2,300 of the participants had died — researchers found that the breakfast abstainers had an 87% higher risk of death related to cardiovascular disease than those who ate breakfast daily. (The study was detailed in the April 30, 2019 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.)
        
        Wei Bao, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Iowa. “The findings in our study are in line with previous findings on the relation of skipping breakfast with cardiovascular risk factors, such as diabetes, hypertension, and lipid disorders. Breakfast should be encouraged as part of an overall healthy diet.”
    - - brain loves the energy it extracts from meal-in one study, subjects that tend to eat breakfast, has the ability to memorize and absorb information than those who doesn't it at all.
        
        If you don’t have breakfast, you might find you feel a bit sluggish and struggle to focus on things. This is because your brain hasn’t received the energy (glucose) it needs to get going. Studies suggest that not having breakfast affects your mental performance, including your attention, ability to concentrate and memory. This can make some tasks feel harder than they normally would.
        Children and adolescents who regularly eat breakfast also tend to perform better academically compared with those who skip breakfast. They also feel a greater level of connectedness with teachers and other adults at their school, which leads to further positive health and academic outcomes.
    - - boost energy levels and alertness or the ability to concentrate in the short term. breakfast also provides essential nutrients required for good health and can help with better weight management
        
        During times of fasting (not eating), such as overnight, the liver breaks down glycogen and releases it into your bloodstream as glucose to keep your blood sugar levels stable. This is especially important for your brain, which relies almost entirely on glucose for energy.
        
        In the morning, after you have gone without food for as long as 12 hours, your glycogen stores are low. Once all of the energy from your glycogen stores is used up, your body starts to break down fatty acids to produce the energy it needs. But without carbohydrate, fatty acids are only partially oxidised, which can reduce your energy levels.
        Eating breakfast boosts your energy levels and restores your glycogen levels ready to keep your metabolism up for the day.
        
        If your body doesn’t get that fuel from food, you may feel zapped of energy -- and you'll be more likely to overeat later in the day.
        Breakfast also gives you a chance to get in some vitamins and nutrients from healthy foods like dairy, grains, and fruits. If you don’t eat it, you aren’t likely to get all of the nutrients your body needs.
        
        breakfast is key to jumpstarting our metabolism, he says. “In order for other tissues to respond well to food intake, you need an initial trigger involving carbs responding to insulin. Breakfast is critical for this to happen,” Fredrik Karpe, professor of metabolic medicine at Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism says.
  - - - Fueling up in the morning can be especially important for children and adolescents, whose metabolic needs are relatively greater than adults.