Researchers found that compared with breakfast rich in carbohydrates such as oats, a high-fat "English breakfast" consisting of bacon, fried eggs, sausages, beans and mushrooms. It is more helpful to start the metabolism of the human body all day and is beneficial to health. But from the perspective of weight control, high-fat breakfast must be combined with low-calorie lunch and dinner to play a role.
Eating fat for breakfast can effectively drive metabolism throughout the day.
Breakfast for the king
The research team led by Professor Molly Bray of the School of Public Health of the University of Alabama in the United States found that eating fat at breakfast can effectively drive the metabolism of the whole day and help the body digest all kinds of foods that it eats later; If you eat carbohydrates for breakfast, the metabolic mechanism of carbohydrates in the body will start, and the metabolic function will remain unchanged no matter what food you eat in the future.
The research results were published in the International Journal of Obesity on March 30th.
On April 1 day, the British Daily Mail quoted researcher Martin Young as saying that breakfast determines the metabolic mechanism of the whole day: breakfast rich in carbohydrates is responsible for starting carbohydrate metabolism throughout the day, while breakfast rich in fat helps the human body to switch between fat metabolism and carbohydrate metabolism flexibly and improve metabolic efficiency.
This study provides "theoretical support" for people who love bacon breakfast, and also verifies a popular western saying: "Eat like a king for breakfast, like a prince for lunch and like a beggar for dinner."
Take care of three meals.
Bray said that their research focused on the effects of eating timing and food types on weight. "Some people have studied the types and quantities of eating before, and some people have paid attention to the effects of sleep and work and rest on weight, but few people have paid attention to the effects of eating timing and types on weight." .
The researchers observed the characteristics of metabolic syndrome in mice by controlling the eating time and food type. Metabolic syndrome is mainly manifested as abdominal obesity, elevated triglycerides, insulin resistance and increased risk of cardiovascular diseases.
The experimental results show that mice that eat high-fat breakfast are healthier, and mice that eat high-fat breakfast with high-fat dinner gain weight, have difficulty in carbohydrate metabolism, and have an increased risk of diabetes.
Researchers say that high-fat breakfast must be combined with low-calorie lunch and dinner to work. If you choose a high-fat or carbohydrate-rich dinner, whatever you eat for breakfast may lead to weight gain and other diseases caused by obesity.
Researchers suggest that people who want to lose weight or maintain weight should fully understand the timing, quality and quantity of food intake, because the timing of daily intake of fat and carbohydrates has a significant impact on metabolic efficiency.
Choose a variety of dietary fats and carbohydrates to further verify the research results.
Continue research
The researchers said that they will select a variety of dietary fats and carbohydrates to further verify the research results, and at the same time expand the subjects from rodents to humans to observe the differences in the experimental results.
A research institute has reached a similar conclusion before. The researchers divided the women who participated in the study into two groups. One group ate half the calories for breakfast all day, while the other group ate less for breakfast. The results show that women who eat more calories in breakfast have better weight loss effect than the other group.
Bray said: "The types of food that humans eat are more complicated. If we want our bodies to effectively dispose of all kinds of foods we eat all day, a fat-rich breakfast is a good choice. " (Han Liang)