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Will Skipping Breakfast Lead To Heart Disease? Many people skip breakfast either they are too busy or lazy to prepare, or they simply wish to lose weight. As reported by a study conducted by NPD Group, a leading marketing research company, 31 million Americans (28 percent of which are men ages between 18 and 34) do not eat a breakfast. One of the most common reasons cited by people skipping breakfast is that they are not hungry at all. But being the first meal of the day, breakfast is supposed to be the most important meal. So, is skipping breakfast a good habit and will that affect the health? Breakfast, according to health experts, immediately raises the body’s energy level and restores the blood glucose level to normal after an overnight fast, and it raises the muscle and liver glycogen stores. Eating breakfast will also lower the stress hormone cortisol that peaks during the early morning hours. This will help lower appetite and reduce daily caloric intake. Some research shows that there is a strong correlation between regular breakfast eating and long-term weight maintenance and weight loss. Published August 2013 in the ‘American Journal of Clinical Nutrition’, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health and other institutions found that irregular breakfast consumption was associated with a higher Type-2 diabetes risk in women, which was partially but not entirely mediated by BMI (body mass index).
These researchers also reported July 23, 2013 in ‘Circulation’ that eating breakfast was linked with a lower risk of heart disease in the all-male Health Professionals Follow-Up Study. In the study, researchers examined the food frequency questionnaires taken over a 16-year period by 26,902 men between aged between 45 and 82 who were free from cardiovascular disease and cancer. During the follow-up period, 1,527 men experienced a coronary heart disease. Results of their analysis indicated that men who skipped breakfast had a 27 percent higher risk of dying from coronary heart disease or experiencing heart attack compared to men who did not, even adjusting for other heart disease risk factors including sedentary activity, exercise, sleep, alcohol intake, smoking status, diet, BMI and medical history. They also found that there was a link between timing of eating and heart disease: those who ate right before they slept had 55 percent higher risk of coronary heart disease. However, they did not find any association between eating frequency (times/day) and risk of coronary heart disease. Fasting during sleep is a stressful state for the body, so prolonging the fast by not eating can lead to increases in diastolic and systolic blood pressure, blood concentrations of insulin, triglycerides, free fatty acids and LDL-cholesterol, and to decreases in blood concentrations of HDL-cholesterol. All these are risk factors for heart disease. Convincing evidence has suggested diets that encourage periodic fasting as well as caloric restriction can reduce weight and heart disease risk factors. But there is difference between skipping breakfast and other forms of fasting or restriction, and even diets that include fasting days do not suggest skipping breakfast. Scientific statements issued by the American Heart Association (AHA) and published online January 30, 2017 in journal ‘Circulation’ suggests that eating more calories earlier in the day and consuming less food at night may lower the risks of a heart attack, stroke or other cardiac or blood vessel diseases. New guidelines form doctors in the United States also indicate that planning meals and snacks in advance and eating breakfast every day may help reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. This is because meal timing affect health by impacting the body’s internal clock, and sugars are not processed as well at night as they are during the day. One thing to note is that metabolism is not static, meaning it can change depending on how and when one feeds the body. As cardiovascular health will feel the effects, choosing reasonable ways to break the fast is crucial. Incorporating many types of healthy foods into the breakfast is an easy way to ensure the meal offers adequate energy and a healthy balance of nutrients, including protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals.
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