The harm to the body from skipping breakfast is increasingly recognized. Breakfast must be eaten, but at the same time, attention must be paid to how and how not to eat. Inappropriate breakfast eating habits can also damage your health and rob you of your happiness. There are several quite popular common breakfast methods you should remember: do not eat like this!
Method One: "Leftover Breakfast"
Breakfast Content: Leftovers, or fried rice with leftovers, noodles with leftovers, etc.
Reason for Popularity: Many mothers in families will cook extra for dinner, and the next morning, make fried rice for their children and family, or simply reheat the remaining meals. Such breakfasts are convenient to make, rich in content, basically no different from a main meal, and are generally considered to be nutritionally complete.
Expert Comment: After being left overnight, vegetables may produce nitrite (a carcinogen), which is harmful to human health.
Suggestion: Try not to eat leftover vegetables; if you use other remaining food for breakfast, be sure to store it properly to prevent spoilage; food taken from the refrigerator must be heated thoroughly.
Method Two: Fast Food Breakfast
Breakfast Content: Various types of Western fast food.
Reason for Popularity: Western fast food like hamburgers and fried chicken wings has always been a dietary preference for fashionable people. Moreover, many fast food chains now offer specialized breakfast menus, such as a hamburger with coffee or milk, black tea, which is convenient, quick, and tastes good.
Expert Comment: This type of high-calorie breakfast can easily lead to obesity, and long-term consumption of fried food is also harmful to the body. If you use Western fast food for breakfast, lunch and dinner must be low-calorie meals. In addition, this type of Western breakfast has the problem of nutritional imbalance: it is high in calories but often lacks nutrients like vitamins, minerals, and fiber.
Method Three: Traditional Flavor Breakfast
Breakfast Content: Youtiao (fried dough sticks), soy milk.
Reason for Popularity: Many people have been accustomed to eating youtiao with soy milk in the morning since childhood, led by their grandparents. They are not only used to the taste but also have an emotional "accumulation" over many years.
Expert Comment: Youtiao is a high-temperature fried food, and like shaobing (grilled flatbread) or jiaozi (pan-fried dumplings), it has a high oil content. Nutrients are destroyed when food is deep-fried, and carcinogens can also be produced. Moreover, youtiao is relatively high in calories and the oil is difficult to digest. Adding soy milk, which is also a medium-fat food, makes the oil content of this breakfast combination significantly excessive and unsuitable for long-term consumption.
Suggestion: Breakfast must include vegetables or fruit. The soy milk and youtiao combination should be eaten infrequently, no more than once a week. Moreover, the lunch and dinner on that day must be as light as possible, avoiding fried, pan-fried, or stir-fried foods, and you should supplement with more vegetables.
Method Four: Snack Breakfast
Breakfast Content: Various snacks, such as snow crackers, biscuits, chocolate, etc.
Reason for Popularity: Many people keep a supply of snacks at home for unexpected needs. In the morning when time is not abundant, they often conveniently grab snacks for breakfast, which is quick and easy.
Expert Comment: It's fine to eat snacks like biscuits and chocolate when you're hungry, but using them as the most important of the three daily meals is very unscientific. Most snacks are dry foods, which are not conducive to digestion and absorption for the human body in a semi-dehydrated state in the morning. Furthermore, snacks like biscuits are mainly made from grains. Although they can provide energy in a short time, they will soon make the body feel hungry again, and blood sugar levels will drop significantly around noon. Eating snacks for breakfast can easily lead to malnutrition, a decline in physical fitness, and make one susceptible to various diseases.
Suggestion: It is not advisable to replace breakfast with snacks, especially too many dry foods. Breakfast foods should contain sufficient moisture. If the breakfast for the day is too dry, you can add a cucumber.
Method Five: Mobile Breakfast
Breakfast Content: Breakfast bought from roadside stalls, eaten while walking. Hands, feet, and mouth are all in motion... a full-body workout.
Reason for Popularity: The mornings of the working class are often spent in a hurry. Especially for those who live far from their workplace, breakfast is often eaten on the go. Foods like baozi (steamed buns), tea eggs, roujiamo (Chinese hamburger), and jianbing guozi (savory crepe) sold at the entrance of residential communities or near bus stops are their first choice. They buy a portion and eat it while walking...
Expert Comment: Eating while walking is not good for gastrointestinal health and hinders digestion and absorption. In addition, street food often has hygiene risks, and it's possible to get sick from what you eat.
Suggestion: If you choose street food for breakfast, first, pay attention to hygiene, and second, it's best to buy it and eat it at home or at the office. Try not to eat breakfast on the way to work to avoid harming your health.
Method Six: "Nutritious" Breakfast
Breakfast Content: Nutritious foods like fruits, vegetables, and milk, but it's missing staple foods that are "not high in nutritional value".
Reason for Popularity: This type of breakfast is generally popular with women because staple foods are the main source of calories, and calories are the enemy of slim women and those on a diet... So, various high-nutrient foods should be eaten, but calories should be reduced.
Expert Comment: Many people mistakenly believe that staple foods only provide calories and have nothing to do with nutrition. In fact, carbohydrates are also part of nutrition and are extremely important for the human body. Without sufficient calorie intake, the body will automatically break down and release energy. Long-term avoidance of staple foods can lead to malnutrition and weaken various bodily functions. Additionally, yogurt and acidic fruits with a tart taste, as well as coarse-fiber fruits like tomatoes, bananas, snow pears, plums, and apricots, should not be consumed on an empty stomach.
Suggestion: You should increase staple foods like bread and steamed buns. These types of grain foods can provide the body with sufficient carbohydrates and also help with the absorption of milk.