Why is a Healthy Breakfast
Considered Brain Food?

I don't have to tell you how important it is to start your day right. A healthy breakfast will set the tone for the rest of the day! If you start the day with low glycemic foods, you will be working towards a healthy diet solution.

Let me ask you, "What does the word breakfast mean? It is a fast of a period of time where you don't eat and that is usually nighttime. During the night, we might be dreaming of eating, but in all reality, we are "fasting" while we sleep. So when do we break that fast?? In the morning, naturally with Breakfast!

In today’s world, we break that fast with fast food from the Drive-thrus, we have donuts, bagels or we just skip Breakfast all together. And skipping breakfast doesn't help people maintain a healthy weight. In fact, someone who skips breakfast tends to eat more calories throughout the day. So, eating breakfast keeps you thin as long as you are eating the correct foods.

Protein Shake	Veggie Omelet	Oatmeal with Blueberries

Eating breakfast is a characteristic common to successful weight loss maintainers and may be a factor in their success.

Researchers from the National Weight Control Registry, found that eating breakfast every day was a weight control strategy for 78% of the people in the registry.

Are you aware that children who eat breakfast perform better on standardized achievement tests and have fewer behavior problems in school?

So tomorrow morning, don't run out the door on an empty stomach. Fuel up with some healthy breakfast recipes. You would not expect your car to run on empty so treat yourself as well as your car. You know driving at a constant speed of 55 mph gives your car the best gas mileage. Likewise, if you keep yourself well fed throughout the day, your metabolism will be at its best too, which means you have more energy and are in a calorie-burning mode. If you are pressed for time to make breakfast, have a healthy, nutritional shake.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

Studies show that breakfast can be important in maintaining a healthy body weight.

Hunger sets in long before it's time for lunch, but because it's not convenient to eat properly, many people who have not eaten breakfast, snack on foods that are high in fat and sugar.

People who skip breakfast are unlikely to make up their daily requirement for some vitamins and minerals that a simple breakfast would have provided.

Breakfast provides energy for the activities during the morning and helps to prevent that mid-morning slump.

Eating a healthy breakfast has been linked to better learning ability and memory functions.

Get up 15 minutes earlier. You can fix and consume a healthy breakfast in 15 minutes or less.

Plan ahead to eat breakfast. This means you should decide what you are going to eat for breakfast before the next morning.

For those people who "don't have the time" or "couldn't be bothered" with breakfast, a tasty, nutritious, well balanced protein shake is a great start to the day. It can contain everything your body needs on a daily basis.

Vanilla Shake	Chocolate Shake	Strawberry Shake

Avoid using sugary and fat-filled snacks as energy boosters. They appear to work, as they give an immediate buzz, but this will fade quickly, leaving you irritable and seeking more.

When you chose healthy breakfast recipes, your body feels nourished and satisfied, making you less likely to overeat the rest of the day.

Making healthy breakfast recipes and eating them every day may reduce the risk for obesity and insulin resistance syndrome - an early sign of developing diabetes - by as much as 35 to 50 percent, according to a study presented at a recent American Heart Association conference.

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