Dr Kealey is a doctor of clinical biochemistry and a professor at Cambridge University. For decades, he has been following this healthy eating guide. Unfortunately, in March 20 10, he was diagnosed with diabetes. The doctor advised him to eat breakfast, eat more staple food (carbohydrates) and not drink alcohol.
However, Dr Kealey is a biochemistry major after all. It is easy for him to study nutrition and biochemical metabolism. Since it has endangered his health, of course, it cannot be taken lightly. So he used himself as a mouse to do scientific experiments, and the result was shocked: as soon as he ate breakfast, his blood sugar soared. He began to try to strictly limit the staple carbohydrate for breakfast, eat a lot of vegetables and nuts, and some white meat. After a period of time, his blood sugar returned to normal level and finally reversed diabetes.
Later, Dr Kealey began to study this problem seriously. He found that breakfast is not as important as the legend, but it is healthier not to eat breakfast. This research completely subverts the traditional social cognition, and he also wrote a book called Breakfast is a Dangerous Meal.
After his book was sold in Amazon, it immediately caused a sensation in the field of nutrition. This sounds unconventional, but it makes sense. Under his influence, many people changed their breakfast habits, ate significantly less, lost appetite and lost weight. I used to eat a high-sugar diet such as toast, steamed bread and porridge every morning. I read Dr. Kealey's book, changed the breakfast structure, changed the bread into fresh cold milk with boiled eggs and bananas, and didn't feel hungry until noon. A month later, I lost 6 kilograms, and my body mass index dropped to 24, and remained stable.
Dr. Kealey explained that when we get up early, the whole person is in a state of tension, and the level of cortisol hormone is higher than other times, which not only inhibits the absorption of glucose by body cells, but also mobilizes glycogen decomposition and promotes the increase of blood sugar. At this time, if carbohydrates are ingested, blood sugar will soar, which will stimulate the secretion of insulin. This extra secretion of insulin leads to insulin resistance in the body, which eventually leads to or aggravates the problem of diabetes. Therefore, it is very dangerous for ordinary people to eat carbohydrate breakfast except those who consume a lot of physical strength every day.
Many people force themselves to eat even if they are not hungry and can't eat after getting up in the morning. Although I skip breakfast occasionally, I am also under great psychological pressure. Many people believe in the tradition of eating a big breakfast. How can they have the strength to work without breakfast? However, with the progress of society, in the past twenty years, people have changed from high-intensity manual labor to mental labor, and their energy consumption has been greatly reduced, but their eating habits have not changed accordingly. More and more people find that they feel much more relaxed after skipping breakfast, but they feel uncomfortable after eating steamed bread. My own experience is that if you eat toast and steamed bread for breakfast, you will be hungry before noon, and if you don't eat carbohydrate breakfast, you won't feel hungry until noon.
Why do you feel more hungry when you eat bread, steamed bread and porridge for breakfast? You're not hungry if you don't eat? This is because high carbohydrate intake will lead to soaring insulin, prompting blood sugar to enter cells quickly, leading to hypoglycemia, thus stimulating hunger, so I want to eat again. Repeatedly, blood sugar is like riding a roller coaster. The more you eat, the hungrier you are, the more unstable your blood sugar is, and the more insulin you secrete. Eating less or no food can reduce appetite and reduce the burden of insulin secretion. So reducing food intake will stabilize blood sugar. About half of the adults in China (nearly 500 million people) have abnormal glucose tolerance, and 654.38+500 million people have diabetes. Bad eating habits are the culprit, so be careful.
If the overnight food has been consumed almost, breakfast is still necessary. For people who work in the office every day, the best breakfast is actually a glass of cold whole/low-fat fresh milk (sugar-free soy milk or water is also acceptable), followed by eggs and nuts, avoiding fine high-sugar carbohydrates. The key is to feel hungry before eating is the healthiest! The original meaning of breakfast is to stop fasting. What's wrong with long-term fasting as long as you're not hungry?
The book The Danger of Breakfast goes like this:
Since the Victorian era, we have been told to eat breakfast like kings and eat like beggars. After his own diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, Professor Terrence Kelly got the same advice. He soon noticed that his glucose level was unusually high after eating the first thing in the morning, but if he continued to fast until lunch time, his glucose level would drop to normal level. Professor Kealey began to question how much evidence supported the advice he got, and whether some people would benefit from skipping breakfast.
Breakfast is a dangerous meal. Ask:
? Is there any reliable scientific and medical evidence for eating breakfast?
? Why do people think that eating breakfast will reduce their total food intake in a day, but the fact is just the opposite?
? Who should consider cutting breakfast out of their daily lives and taking intermittent fasting?
? From losing weight to lowering blood pressure, what are the potential benefits of skipping breakfast?
Will this article change your breakfast habits?