Skipping Breakfast: 5 Dangerous Side-Effects You Can’t Ignore

Traditionally, there is no meal more important than breakfast, and for a good reason for this. They start your metabolism, replenishing the body’s energy supply as well as determining the whole day’s productivity. However, the act of not eating in the morning has become a norm for many people, and for some it is because of their busy schedules while for others it is because of shedding off some unwanted weight. However, what most people fail to realize is that this relatively innocuous action can have a number of negative impacts on your body.

1. Impaired Cognitive Function: Breakfast supplies energy such as glucose which is important to your brain particularly in the morning. For example, missing breakfast will cause smaller brain functioning, which means that you and your co-workers may experience problems with concentration and even memory loss.

2. Increased Risk of Weight Gain: Surprisingly, omitting this meal ruins your attempts to shed a few pounds as people believed before. It may lead to overeating during the other remaining part of the day especially with high calorie foods and thus lead to weight gain in the long-run.

3. Hormonal Imbalance: Among the vital roles, it plays is regulating hormones such as insulin and cortisol that aids in metabolism as well as stress. The lack of breakfast breaks this balance and after this, one is at risk of developing insulin resistant, high blood sugar stressed individuals.

4. Elevated Risk of Heart Disease: There is also research evidence that relate breakfast eating to reduced probability of cardiovascular disease. This may be because of its correlation with other detrimental lifestyle parameters including bad diets and lack of exercise, factors that increase cardiovascular risks.

5. Decreased Nutritional Intake: Eating a healthy breakfast is an important means of putting vitamins, minerals and fiber back into the body. As you will realize, there are certain nutrients that can only be obtained if you take certain meals, therefore if you skip this meal, you will be missing on these essential nutrients.

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Lastly, it can be said that skipping breakfast does not actually cause no harm, however it is dangerous for your health. Alcohol can eliminate proper brain functioning, alter coordination, and even lead to cardiovascular diseases. Thus, there is no denying that you need to start with a healthy meal every morning for you to be healthy and energetic throughout the day.

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