Importance of having Breakfast
Breakfast can help prevent strokes,
heart attack and sudden death. Advice
on not to skip breakfast!
Healthy living
For those who always skip breakfast,
you should stop that habit now! You’ve
heard many times that ” Breakfast is
the most important meal of the day.”
Now, recent research confirms that one
of the worst practices you can develop
may be avoiding breakfast.
Why?
Because the frequency of heart attack,
sudden death, and stroke peaks between
6: 00a.m. and noon, with the highest
incidence being
between 8: 00a.m. and 10:00a.m.What
mechanism within the body could
account for this significant jump in
sudden death in the early
morning hours?
We may have an Answer.
Platelet, tiny elements in the blood
that keep us from bleeding to Death if
we get a cut, can clump together
inside our arteries due to
cholesterol or laque buildup in the
artery lining. It is in the morning
hours that platelets become the most
activated and tend to form these
internal blood clots at the greatest
frequency.
However, eating even a very light
breakfast prevents the morning
platelet activation that is associated
with heart attacks and strokes.
Studies performed at Memorial
University in St.Johns, Newfoundland
found that eating a light, very low-
fat breakfast was critical in
modifying the morning platelet
activation. Subjects in the study
consumed either low-fat or fat-free
yogurt, orange juice, fruit, and a
source of protein coming from yogurt
or fat-free milk. So if you skip
breakfast, it’s important that you
change this practice immediately in
light of this research. Develop a
simple plan to eat cereal , such as
oatmeal or Bran Flakes, along with six
ounces of grape juice or orange
juice , and perhaps a piece of fruit.
This simple plan will keep your
platelets from sticking together, keep
blood clots from forming, and perhaps
head off a potential Heart Attack or
stroke . So never ever skip breakfast .
