NEWS

WIRES

OTHER

Breakfast: Truly The Most Important Meal!

By Rocco Loosbrock

Recent reports released by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition serve to once again prove our position on the point that breakfast really "IS" the most important meal of the day.

What's interesting and significant here is that they go well beyond the scope of merely reiterating the fact that we humans naturally need a regular, reliable source of "FUEL" to effectively get ourselves revved up and started each day.

Breakfast's importance is also a mater of efficiently maintaining those high levels of activity needed throughout our long, laborious day, not just simply a matter of "gassing up" for the daily drive through life.

A healthy breakfast significantly helps you to lose weight and stay in much better shape. If most people eat dinner sometime between 6 & 8 PM and don't eat again till breakfast, served between 6 & 8 AM, their body is deprived of all vital nutrients for a period up to 12 or even 14 hours. That's an extremely long time to starve a body and mind of living cells, as well as your vital organs and systems.

That's why "Breakfast" is so very important.

Look at the literal etymology of the word itself: break = To stop, interrupt, put an end to / fast = To abstain from or deprive oneself of all food. Skipping breakfast forces your body to continue struggling in "starvation mode" which tells the body to do everything in its power to hold on to every bit of fat in order to survive the famine that it is experiencing.

Eating your morning meal gives your metabolism the "wake-up" boost it so desperately needs, "turning up" your body's internal fat burning abilities. Not eating causes your metabolism to plummet, the last thing someone trying to get back into shape could possibly do.

Not eating breakfast literally forces your body into a very tense and stressful, panicked state of biological "Survival Mode!" In response, your body tries to desperately hoard and hold onto as much of your stored up fat, while seeking to find any way possible to add to its fat reserves. Believing that it is in danger of starving to death, your body begins a valiant but misguided effort to successfully store up more fat in order to survive what it perceives to be a serious, life-threatening situation.

Thus, you will most likely begin experiencing moderate to extensive bouts of confusion, insecurity, lethargy, ambivalence, apathy, fear, paranoia, light-headed dizziness, nausea and potentially, migraine headaches.

So remember, eating healthy doesn't mean 'Not Eating!" Stay healthy, full of energy, accomplish your goals and objectives throughout your busy day while keeping cool, calm, clear, confident and collected by eating breakfast. Plus, experience the added advantage by naturally and easily dropping those extra pounds, slimming down and achieving attractive muscle tone with an energetic sense of vim and vigor!

Copyright (c) 2007, Coastal Vineyards Wine & Gourmet Food Club
www.cvwine.com, All Rights Reserved Worldwide.

Rocco operates a food and wine company in Los Angeles, California. Visit http://www.cvwine.com to learn more.