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- Those who do not eat breakfast have phigh levels of calcium, folic acid, iron and vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, C and Daccording to a study from the University of Ohio.
- Those who give up food after waking up they tend to not follow balanced diets and eat more and worse throughout the day.
- The timing of meals and how it influences your healthy diet
- Intermittent fasting: everything you need to know about this practice and its impact on the diet
The rush, the closed stomach, the lack of ideas or not knowing what to do to make the first meal healthy are some of the reasons why many adults give up food shortly after waking up. Sometimes a simple coffee or a frugal choice is chosen to rush the minutes of sleep and go out to fight for the day. However, Giving up breakfast may be a poor option because of its connection to poor diets and loss of nutrients, as they have verified in a study carried out for a decade in the United States.
Research developed by nutrition experts from the Ohio University (United States) and the Medical College from the same state collected data from 5,000 people each year for more than a decade (from 2005 to 2016) and found that fasting was related to an unbalanced diet that meant a poorer intake compared to those who started the day eating.
The published data on nutritional gaps and poor diets related to skipping breakfast in the scientific journal Proceedings of the Nutrition Society they point out that approximately 15% of the observed population fasted, according to data collected by a national survey of the department of Health and Nutrition from the US National Health Center. Once this persil was located, their analyzes were compared and it was found that there were notable differences (for bad) in its levels of calcium, folic acid, iron and vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, C and D.
Why does fasting lead to a poorer diet? “It has been proven that those who skipped breakfast and those who ate breakfast had a different nutritional profile“, points out in the presentation of the results Stephanie Fanelli, one of the signatories of the study. “What we are seeing is that if you do not eat the foods you usually eat for breakfast, you have a tendency not to eat them the rest of the day. So that becomes a nutritional gap,” he illustrates Christopher Taylor, Professor of Medical Dietetics at the University of Ohio and lead author of the study.
The foods that experts refer to as the basis for breakfast are the milk, which provides calcium; fruit, which adds vitamin C and fiber, as well as vitamins; and whole grains or oats that add minerals and vitamins. According to the behavior analysis, the adults did not recover this battery of essential nutrients.
“The data helped us identify that this percentage of people are more likely to skip breakfast on any given day. And on that day, their dietary intake pattern showed that their consumption did not acquire those additional nutrients that they had basically skipped at breakfast“notes Stephanie Fanelli.” We found that those who fasted were significantly more likely to not reach the minimum threshold of what we expect people to eat “, summarizes the researcher in relation to nutrients.
More added sugars and fats among fasters
On the other, the practice It has also been linked to other unhealthy habits. According to the information recorded, those who skipped breakfast were also the ones who ate the most between meals and did so with poor choices. Experts point out that precisely the abandonment of early food could also be connected.
“Snacking between meals is a basic food for the calorie intake of those who have skipped breakfast. People who eat breakfast eat more calories than people who do not, but lunch, dinner and snacks are much larger compared to those who had breakfast, and they also tend to have a lower quality diet“, exposes Christopher Taylor, member of the School of Health Sciences and Rehabilitation from Ohio University. To make matters worse, their observations noted that those who did not eat breakfast ate more added sugars, carbohydrates and fats throughout the day, largely incorporated when snacking between meals to compensate for the emptiness in the morning.
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Fasting is not bad in itself, but it contributes to a wrong pattern
Research does not advise a forced breakfast and does not ensure that skipping breakfast is unhealthy. What it warns about is the different nutritional profiles and the trend towards a poorer diet with an absence of essential nutrients among those who postpone the first intake. In fact, remember that a non-recommended breakfast would also be a bad habit, although he insists that the healthiest pattern is usually among those who start the day with a good breakfast.
Evidently, the experts were asked about the topic that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It may not be necessary to prioritize between the different hours, but the data does reaffirm the importance of a healthy pattern that begins in the first hours after rest. “Now we have seen what implications it really has if you miss breakfast“, argumenta Christopher Taylor.
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