Too lazy to cook breakfast, you either rush out to eat at your favourite restaurant or you have a stock of muffins, scones, and cakes in your fridge and food cupboard. Forget being lazy you just love to gorge on doughnuts and frozen waffles. But do you realise that the type of food that you are taking for the breakfast is not only unhealthy but makes you feel lethargic and tired throughout the day.
Breakfast is that important part of your meal which should not be ignored at any cost. And eating a healthy breakfast ensures that not only you are physically and mentally active through out the day but also less irritable, more friendly and cheerful. Also breakfast is the only meal where you can get to include the essential nutrients like calcium, fibre, antioxidants, and whole grains. Hence it is advisable to have a healthy breakfast and avoid these six items as breakfast.
1. Sugary delights
Avoid sugary delights first thing in the morning. Although your body goes in the starvation mode during night thus slowing down the metabolism rate and becomes deficient of sugar it is not advisable to start your morning with sugary delights like cakes, pastries, muffins, or scones. Even if they are fruit cakes or pastries, they are glazed with sugar and loads of cream which is just empty calories and no nutrients. One serving of your favourite muffins contains around 680 kilocalories and 48 grams of fat. Scones particularly are rich in trans fat. Hence starting your day with cakes, muffins, and scones is not a good idea.
2. Fried foods
So you think one plate of doughnuts is not harmful or munching on French fries is fine if you do it occasionally. You can not be more wrong here. Doughnuts are fried foods glazed with lots of sugar syrup and then dip in the powdered sugar for that extra glaze that you love so much. And French fries are not only fried but loaded with extra sodium a deadly combo for anyone. Fried foods intensifies thirst making you drink lots of water and excess salt helps to retain that water in the body making you look, and feel bloated, and tired throughout the day. Hence avoid fried foods first thing in the morning.
3. Aerated drinks and canned juices
You love your colas and lemonades and canned juices but do you know how much of empty calories you are packing in by drinking these in the morning. Aerated drinks have nothing but empty calories, fizz, and loads of sugar which can play havoc with your digestive system. Hence avoid them both in the breakfast as well as throughout the day. Instead have lukewarm water that will keep you fit and healthy.
4. Beverages like tea or coffee
Tea or coffee per se is not calorie laden but the ingredients added to them make them rich in calories. Like sugar, cream, and milk make these beverages rich in calories and less nutrient. So if you must drink these in the mornings drink either with less or no sugar, skimmed milk and no cream.
5. Breakfast meals at fast food chains
Running late, no time to cook, or don't want to cook you rush out to your favourite restaurant to grab a bite from their breakfast meals. Breakfast meals at fast food restaurants will be the combination of some junk food which will be drenched in high calories, loaded with trans fat and sodium all of which are not good news for your overnight starved body, now, is it? Respect your body and if you don't have time to have a proper breakfast grab a fruit like apple or banana along with a glass of skimmed milk, these would be better options than eating a breakfast meal at a fast food joint.
6. Breakfast sandwiches
These are other things to avoid for breakfast. Sandwiches packed with loads of butter, cheese and processed vegetables are not good for you in the mornings. Unless of course they are made from whole wheat bread, and contain ingredients like cucumber, tomatoes, cabbages, or boiled eggs, chicken or turkey with either no butter or its lower calorie version with loads of fresh mint or coriander chutney.
Avoid these six items in the breakfast for a healthy start to your day. Add loads of fibre to your breakfast and you will see the difference in your day.
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