"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 hea! rt 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 away from forming, and perhaps head off
a potential Heart Attack or stroke. So never ever skip
breakfast
