Breakfast can help prevent strokes, heart attack and sudden death.
ADVICE ON NOT TO SKIP BREAKFAST
For those who always skip breakfast, you should stop that habit now! You've heard many times that "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day." Now, recent research confirms that one of the worst practices you can develop may be avoiding breakfast.
Why?
Because the frequency of heart attacks, sudden death, and stroke peaks between 6:00a.m. and noon, with the highest incidence being between 8: 00a.m. and 10:00a.m.What mechanism within the body could account for this significant jump in sudden death in the early morning hours?
We may have an Answer.
Platelet, tiny elements in the blood that keep us from bleeding to Death if we get a cut, can clump together inside our arteries due to cholesterol or plaque buildup in the artery lining. It is in the morning hours that platelets become the most activated and tend to form these internal blood clots at the greatest frequency.
However, eating even a very light breakfast prevents the morning platelet activation that is associated with heart attacks and strokes. Studies performed at Memorial University in St.Johns, Newfoundland found that eating a light, very low-fat breakfast was critical in modifying the morning platelet activation. Subjects in the study consumed either low-fat or fat-free yogurt, orange juice, fruit, and a source of protein coming from yogurt or fat-free milk. So if you skip breakfast, it's important that you change this practice immediately in light of this research.
Develop a simple plan to eat cereal, such as oatmeal or Bran Flakes, along with six ounces of grape juice or orange juice, and perhaps a piece of fruit.
This simple plan will keep your platelets from sticking together, keep blood clots from forming, and perhaps head off a potential Heart Attack or stroke.
SO NEVER EVER SKIP BREAKFAST!
Something to share….
We have often heard or have been told that we should "eat like a King" in the mornings meaning that the breakfast we take is able to provide us energy and vitality throughout the morning. To start work with an empty stomach will definitely affects our alertness in performance as we will soon feel hungry and lack of energy.
Some people have the habit of eating breakfast late and skip their lunch. So they prefer to have "brunch" instead of breakfast and lunch. This may upset our digestion system! Afterall, what I understand is that "breakfast" is to break the fast during our sleeping time when we do not have any food consumption. By the time we wake up, our stomach is already empty and it's time to take in new food to get the digestion system resuming its work.
Now we learn that if we skip breakfast, we are putting great risk of getting heart attack or stroke, we better think twice on the importance of taking breakfast.
Always remember, we EAT TO LIVE!
