The harm to the body from skipping breakfast is being recognized by more and more people. Breakfast must be eaten, but at the same time, you must pay attention to how to eat it and how not to eat it. 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: you cannot 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 to make fried rice for their children and families the next morning, or just reheat the remaining dishes. Such breakfasts are convenient, rich in content, basically no different from a main meal, and are generally considered nutritionally complete.
Expert Commentary: After being left overnight, vegetables may produce nitrite (a carcinogenic substance), which is harmful to human health.
Suggestion: Try not to eat leftover vegetables; if you use other leftover 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 special breakfast menus, such as a hamburger with coffee or milk, black tea, which is convenient, quick, and tastes good.
Expert Commentary: This 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. 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.
Suggestion: If you choose Western fast food for breakfast, you should add fruits or vegetable soup to maintain nutritional balance and ensure the intake of various nutrients. It's also best not to eat it long-term.
Method Three: Traditional Style Breakfast
Breakfast Content: Fried dough sticks, soy milk.
Reason for Popularity: Many people have been accustomed to eating fried dough sticks with soy milk since childhood, guided by their grandparents. They are not only used to the taste but also have an emotional "accumulation" over many years.
Expert Commentary: Fried dough sticks are high-temperature fried foods, and like sesame cakes, egg cakes, and pan-fried dumplings, they have a problem of being high in oil. Nutrients are destroyed in food after high-temperature frying, and carcinogenic substances can also be produced. Moreover, fried dough sticks are relatively high in calories, and the oil is difficult to digest. Coupled with soy milk being a medium-fat food, the oil content of this breakfast combination is clearly excessive and is not suitable for long-term consumption.
Suggestion: Breakfast must include vegetables or fruit. It's best to eat less of the soy milk and fried dough sticks combination; no more than once a week. And the lunch and dinner of the same day must be as light as possible, no more fried, pan-fried, or stir-fried foods, and supplement more vegetables.
Method Four: Snack Breakfast
Breakfast Content: Various snacks, such as snow cakes, biscuits, chocolate, etc.
Reason for Popularity: Many people keep some snacks at home for emergencies. When they wake up in the morning and time is not abundant, they often just grab snacks for breakfast, which is convenient and quick.
Expert Commentary: It's fine to eat snacks like biscuits and chocolate when you're hungry, but using snacks as the most important meal of the day, breakfast, is very unscientific. Most snacks are dry foods, which are not conducive to digestion and absorption for the human body, which is in a semi-dehydrated state in the morning. Moreover, snacks like biscuits are mainly made from grains, which can provide energy in a short time, but will soon make people feel hungry again. 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: On-the-Go Breakfast
Breakfast Content: Breakfast bought from the roadside, eaten while walking, with hands, feet, and mouth all moving... a full-body workout.
Reason for Popularity: The mornings of the working class are spent in a hurry, especially for those who live far from their workplace. Breakfast is often solved on the road. Foods like steamed buns, tea eggs, Roujiamo, and Jianbing Guozi 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 Commentary: Eating while walking is not good for gastrointestinal health and is not conducive to digestion and absorption. In addition, street food often has health hazards, 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 home or eat it 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, eggs, milk, etc., but it's missing staple foods that are "not high in nutritional value."
Reason for Popularity: This type of breakfast is generally very popular with women because staple foods are the main source of calories, and calories are the enemy of slim women and people on a diet... So, various high-nutrient foods should be eaten, but calories should be reduced.
Expert Commentary: 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 to 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. In addition, yogurt and acidic fruits and high-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 enough carbohydrates and also help with the absorption of milk.