Why eating breakfast is good for your health
We all have heard that “breakfast is the most important meal of the day”. I always emphasize to students how important breakfast is to children’s health and recent research is showing to adult health as well. Adult Health Research in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology found that breakfast skippers increase their risk of dying from heart disease or a stroke. And the risk is huge. The study found that people who skipped breakfast had not only a higher risk of dying from heart disease but breakfast skippers had an 87% higher risk of dying from heart disease than those who took the time to eat breakfast every day. And it just wasn’t a study of “old” people. The 6,550 study participants ages ranged from 40 to 75. How often did the people in the study skip or eat breakfast? 5.1% never ate breakfast 10.9% rarely ate breakfast 25% had breakfast sometimes 59% ate breakfast every day Unfortuna...