How harmful is the trend of "Eating breakfast at noon" among young people?

In today's modern lifestyle, many young people tend to "eat breakfast late" or "skip and combine breakfast and lunch into one" for many different reasons such as: fear of being late for work, waking up late, laziness. , subjective with health... This harmful eating habit can make you susceptible to many diseases.

How important is breakfast?

Breakfast has long been considered an extremely important meal for our health, and many nutrition experts recommend paying attention to it. Most of the morning is spent working and studying at high intensity, so if we skip breakfast, eat late or just eat carelessly, carelessly... it will greatly affect the metabolism, providing enough energy and nutrients for the body. From there, we can be more susceptible to illness, and have many different health problems if this harmful eating habit persists.

Besides, many studies show that people who regularly eat breakfast tend to be healthier, less likely to be overweight/obese, have a lower risk of certain chronic diseases and have many healthy habits. other.

What happens if you skip breakfast regularly?

Starting a new day with a quality, nutritious breakfast is a good habit that helps us protect our health. However, for many different reasons, many young people today gradually "forget" this habit, leading to many negative health consequences such as:

Skipping breakfast can lead to digestive diseases: Stomach pain is a common symptom in people who skip breakfast, eat breakfast late... Due to an empty stomach, gastric juice is secreted but there is no food. For digestion, they have the ability to "attack" the stomach lining, forming inflammations and ulcers, thereby causing stomach pain and, more dangerously, causing bleeding. Besides, skipping breakfast also causes the body to experience many other digestive symptoms such as: Nausea, heartburn, poor appetite, diarrhea and even constipation.

In addition, being too hungry due to skipping breakfast can also lead to irregular eating habits (eating too much or eating unhealthy foods). From there, the digestive process is seriously affected.

Skipping breakfast can lead to nutritional deficiencies: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, providing nutrients to the body after a long rest period. Therefore, skipping breakfast can increase the time without food, causing the body to lack necessary food and nutrients. Breakfast should include foods rich in fiber and protein.

Increased risk of chronic diseases due to poor breakfast habits: When you don't eat breakfast, you may find that you get hungry more quickly throughout the day and you easily fall into a state of uncontrolled eating, here is a direct cause of rapid weight gain, and is also the risk of other diseases caused by overeating and excess sugar such as heart disease, diabetes...

Many studies show that skipping breakfast contributes to high blood pressure, insulin resistance, high blood sugar. A quality breakfast with whole grains helps reduce blood cholesterol, lose weight, and reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.

Headaches, decreased concentration, decreased attention: Skipping breakfast reduces blood sugar levels, causing symptoms of hypoglycemia leading to migraines and headaches. Lack of energy reduces your concentration, which affects your memory and brain coordination. This reduces the efficiency of work and study.

What kind of breakfast is good for health?

Breakfast will provide energy for the body after a long night, helping the brain and body get energy for a new day. Therefore, we should not eat breakfast late, should have the habit of eating breakfast at a fixed time, creating a conditioned reflex for the body. We should have breakfast before 8 o'clock, or after waking up 30 minutes to 1 hour.

Consider breakfast as the main meal, providing 1/4 - 1/3 of the day's energy, ensuring all 5 groups of carbohydrates, protein, fat, vegetables and fruits, adding milk and dairy products such as yogurt, cheese to help you stay alert, study and work effectively all day and help you stay healthy, prevent disease.

A nutritious breakfast (at least 5 groups of carbohydrates, protein, fat, vegetables, fruits) is very important for our health.

“...Many young people have the habit of only drinking a cup of coffee or eating a piece of cake or a few pieces of fruit for breakfast…” This is unscientific. Although coffee is a drink that helps the body fight oxidation, drinking coffee in the morning without eating breakfast is also harmful to health, especially harmful to the digestive system.

Besides, eating a few pastries for breakfast is not good because the ingredients of pastries are flour, eggs, milk, butter, in which flour is a simple form of carbohydrate that is not beneficial to health. Fruits are low in protein and calories and cannot provide the nutrients needed to create energy and maintain normal metabolism. Due to lack of nutrients, you will work and study ineffectively. High enzyme concentrations in fruit can cause gastric juice disorders, leading to stomach pain.

In short, breakfast is an extremely important meal. To have good health, we need to pay more attention to breakfast, create and maintain the habit of eating breakfast every day, and not skip meals. We can eat breakfast at home or eat out as long as we choose dishes that suit our taste and have enough nutrients (at least enough of the 5 groups of carbohydrates, protein, fat, vegetables, and fruits).