Don't eat breakfast

[Maryl96]

i have ever read about don't eat breakfast. It's a a dangerous meal. What do you think about this?

[TheAwfulToad]

A lot of dietary advice seizes upon some trivial metabolic observation and turns it into "XYZ is bad for you". Thus Robert Lustig will tell you that fructose is poison; mainstream advice says that all fat is poison; vegetarians say all meat is poison; keto fanatics will tell you that all carbs are poison; etc etc.

It all gets a bit silly. Humans are pretty adaptable, and very few things will do you serious harm.

A long nighttime fast seems to have some advantages - ie., eat your dinner early and your breakfast late. However it's taking things to an unjustified extreme to say breakfast is "dangerous".

Incidentally, are you a native Chinese speaker? Your use of "ever" is the giveaway

[alchemilla12 in reply to TheAwfulToad]

is not "ever " just a typo for "never "? !

[TheAwfulToad in reply to alchemilla12]

haha - should be.

In Chinese-speaking countries people are often taught in schools to use "I have ever" where their intention is express the past progressive tense, or something similar. Chinese doesn't have tenses as such, so specific words are used to indicate timing, and English teachers have a habit of making English phrases work in the same way. "I have ever" is one of those phrases that seems to have entered the textbooks and stuck there.

Anyway, seems maryl has disappeared, so we'll never know ...

[Zest]

Hi Maryl96

I think it's a personal thing about whether people prefer to eat breakfast or not - as far as I know (from the information I have read) there aren't any 'dangers' to eating breakfast - it comes down to whether it fits your personal eating preferences and choices.

There are some people who fast and eat at lunchtime or later, and that works well for them. Personally I enjoy my breakfast first thing in the morning, every day, and I very much enjoy eating breakfast.

What do you think about it yourself, and what do you normally do?

Welcome to the Healthy eating forum, and I hope you'll enjoy participating here.

Zest

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[andyswarbs]

I think that the opposite view that breakfast is the key meal in a day is overrated. But dangerous, for me, is about the choice of ingredients rather than when.

[Activity2004 Administrator in reply to andyswarbs]

I agree that breakfast is important to have each morning. You just have to decide what is the right thing for you and see how it does for a few days.

[Matt2584 in reply to andyswarbs]

Definitely agree with you there Andy.

Doesn't matter when you eat breakfast really it mostly depends what you eat that counts.

You could eat breakfast at 12pm when half the world are eating lunch but the thing is it is the first meal for that individual of the day. They have broken their fast, hence 'breakfast'.

If breakfast was dangerous then how come people have been doing it for thousands of years?

If people were known to die or become ill from it then it would surely stop, right?

Just sounds like a load of ol' poppycock to me.

[CrimsonMama]

I would like to think it is a personal preference and I think using the word dangerous is headline-grabbing-sensationalism. I have no clue about the scientific effects, glucose levels, metabolism when you wake etc and billions of people go about their day -eating breakfast or not - without a thought and without any obvious side effects. Of course WHAT you eat for breakfast is a different story. A person choosing a cooked high fat breakfast daily is going to have an effect on their body different to someone choosing to eat fruit and a glass of orange juice daily. But that could be said of all the days meals not just breakfast.

I used to skip breakfast as I wasn't hungry so early in the morning and used to prefer to eat an early lunch about 11am. However due to my work schedule where I can't eat until about 2pm I do now eat a crumpet for breakfast in the mornings as I find I am less tempted to grab biscuits and other rubbish foods at work than if I don't eat breakfast.

I have noticed no weight loss difference between choosing to eat or not eat in the morning. Weight loss tends to be based on the overall calories consumed over the week and amount of exercise I do.

[Fran182716 Prediabetic in reply to CrimsonMama]

The high fat breakfast you mention would be much better for my body than fruit plus juice - it depends on people's individual needs. But I can only eat a small portion at breakfast and not until I've been up a couple of hours and walked the dog, I'm just not hungry till then. Breakfast at work has to be eaten on the go. Usually some full fat greek yoghurt with a few berries.

[BridgeGirl]

You're making me think about my ritual two cups of coffee in the morning. Instant, so not high caffeine, but caffeine, nonetheless. Maybe I need to find an alternative.

I don't have breakfast, though. I eat when I feel hungry which is anywhere between 12 and 2. The joys of being retired. I couldn't have been this flexible and responsive to hunger when I was working

[TheAwfulToad in reply to BridgeGirl]

I think a lot of people eat breakfast simply because they know they won't have a chance to eat during working hours - their workplace (or school) decides when they're allowed to eat and when they're not. Which is a bit sad really.

[Matt2584 in reply to TheAwfulToad]

Very sad, Toad.

I say we could do without schools these days, you can learn more from textbooks.

[Penel in reply to BridgeGirl]

Only one mug of coffee for me, but served with cream.

[BridgeGirl in reply to Penel]

I can’t take to it with cream, I find it too sickly. Which is odd as I can happily drink cream from the tub!

[NoMoreJunk in reply to BridgeGirl]

I thought this was just me...I out 2 teaspoons of cream in my coffee..then 1 for me! I put the spoon in the dishwasher after for clean fanatics!

[Matt2584 in reply to Penel]

I've heard that eating an apple or drinking apple juice in the morning is more affective than anything caffeine related at waking you up.

Got to say, I have had apple juice in the morning before and it is good but if you are drinking standard apple juice from the supermarkets then you will likely get that added sugar that you don't want or need.

[Penel in reply to Matt2584]

Unfortunately apple juice doesn’t agree with me. My coffee is a mid morning treat rather than a wake-up drink.

[Matt2584 in reply to Penel]

I like my coffee as well and I mostly have mine after my dinner.

After reading a friend’s post on the Headway community I belong to about the Lion’s mane mushroom. I now get coffee with Lion’s mane and the the Chaga mushroom. It’s good for the brain... apparently.

[Nonam]

I think breakfast the most important meal of the day . like putting fuel in a car the better the quality the improved performance. Couldnt survive without my porridge and fruit..so dont skip