Skipping breakfast can easily lead to 3 diseases! The first one torments many people...

Today's young people are really too difficult (lazy)

Especially when it comes to breakfast.

Some people don't have enough time.

I spent all my energy just going to work

Some people are not capable enough

Watching helplessly, the pot ate the buns

But we've all heard

“Breakfast is the most important meal of the day”

What effects does skipping breakfast have on your body?

Listen to the Department of Biliary Surgery at West China Hospital of Sichuan University

What does Dr. Cai Yulong say?

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Just like everyone has a different concept of "staying up late", it is difficult to have a unified time standard for what time is considered breakfast.

Maybe your parents think that breakfast should be eaten at 7 or 8 in the morning, but you think the first meal you eat after waking up counts.

After sorting out many studies on breakfast, it can be summarized as follows: the first meal of the day, or the meal consumed 2 hours after waking up, which consumes about 20% to 30% of the daily energy requirement, can be called "breakfast."

• For example, you wake up at 8am every morning and have breakfast at 9am;

• Sleep in on the weekends, get up at 10am, and have breakfast at 11am;

• But after you get up, you just eat a piece of bread and drink a glass of warm water. The energy intake is far from enough and it can't be called breakfast.

So, what happens if you don’t eat breakfast for more than 2 hours after getting up?

If you only skip meals occasionally , the worst that can happen is that you'll be hungry.

Not eating enough breakfast will indeed cause changes in blood sugar and slow attention, but these can be alleviated by eating something quickly, so skipping a meal occasionally will not have any terrible consequences.

But if you skip breakfast for a long time , you may really face a health crisis!

However, the biggest reason is not "breakfast", but the lack of regular eating and rest habits. Frequently eating breakfast and lunch together often means staying up late and going to bed late... These behaviors have already caused harm to the body before "skipping breakfast".

Modern young people, who are pushed to twice the speed by the pressure of life, often eat only when they are hungry due to overtime, staying up late, lying in bed, having fun, etc., and forget about it when they forget.

It is this irregular eating habit that leads to a variety of health risks :

Gallbladder stones (most concerned)

After a night of accumulation, the gallbladder has a lot of bile, which needs the stimulation of food intake to be discharged; but if you don't eat breakfast, the bile will be stagnant and concentrated. When the cholesterol in the bile reaches an oversaturated state, cholesterol crystals will form, which is easy to form sterol stones in the long run.

Tips: When people usually talk about gallstones, they actually mean gallbladder stones! ~

Stomach disease

After waking up from a night's sleep, the stomach is empty. Only the stomach acid accumulated throughout the night and various digestive enzymes in the stomach stimulate the gastric mucosa. Without food intake, the gastric mucosa will continue to be "damaged", which can easily cause chronic gastritis, gastric ulcers and other diseases.

Cardiovascular disease

The Journal of the American College of Cardiology published an article stating that skipping breakfast or consuming less than 5% of total daily calories for breakfast can double the risk of atherosclerosis and increase the risk of death from cardiovascular disease by about 87%.

So, will you get gallstones if you don’t eat breakfast?

This statement is not rigorous! **There is no direct correlation between the two. **To be precise, skipping breakfast is just one of the representative behaviors of "irregular diet and work and rest" in the group with high risk of gallstones.

Don’t be afraid if you have gallstones. Just see a specialist promptly and develop a treatment plan. This “minor illness” is often ignored and eventually leads to a “big disaster.”

In other words, whether you develop the habit of getting up at 8 o'clock every day to eat breakfast, or only eat two meals a day, as long as it is regular and provides sufficient energy, it is healthy.

★ However, for minors, it is recommended to eat breakfast and replenish energy in time! Because minors need more energy, metabolize faster, and have more active brain activities. If they cannot keep up with the intake, it is easy to affect their growth and development.

So compared to the question of "whether to eat breakfast", doctors actually care more about: what to eat for breakfast?

It has to be said that we Chinese have a different obsession with "breakfast" : Chengdu's pig intestines rice noodle must be served with pot cakes and knots, Beijing's fried liver is particular about the liver and sausage, and Guangzhou's morning tea must be drunk until lunch...

But from a doctor's point of view, if you eat breakfast like this, it may not be healthier than not eating breakfast.

A good breakfast should provide rich nutrition, high-quality protein and sufficient dietary fiber; avoid high-fat, high-cholesterol foods , and patients with gallstones should especially avoid the intake of offal.

Protein-Rich Foods

Lean meat, fish, milk, etc. Tyrosine in protein can also promote the body to secrete dopamine and adrenaline, making people's thinking sharper and improving work efficiency.

Foods rich in dietary fiber

Fresh vegetables and fruits, especially dark-colored ones, are more nutritious. Ensuring adequate intake of fresh vegetables and fruits is also helpful for weight control.

Carbohydrate-Rich Foods

Bread, steamed bread, multi-grain porridge and other staple foods. Carbohydrates can be directly converted into glucose necessary for the brain, making brain cells active.

Life is hard enough.

So, remember to eat well.

If you still have this problem

You can consult Dr. Cai offline or online