There are many ways to lose weight, but many people choose dieting or even skip breakfast in their efforts. Others use excuses like not having enough time to skip breakfast, unaware that this can lead to weight gain and even harm their health. Today, we'll introduce five major harms of skipping breakfast.
1. Prone to weight gain
Skipping breakfast inevitably leads to overeating at lunch and dinner, especially dinner, followed by going to sleep shortly afterward. The body doesn't have enough time to digest and absorb the food, and over time, this overburdens the body, resulting in excess calories and fat accumulation, causing weight gain. Skipping breakfast can make you more prone to weight gain, so breakfast is essential for weight loss!
2. Skipping breakfast affects appearance.
Skipping breakfast, like smoking, excessive drinking, and staying up all night, can seriously affect one's appearance. Without breakfast, anemia and malnutrition can easily develop. This not only severely damages health but also easily causes a woman's complexion to appear unsightly, grayish-white or sallow. The body can only utilize stored glycogen and protein, which over time leads to dry skin, wrinkles, anemia, and accelerated aging.
Third, skipping breakfast can easily lead to digestive tract diseases.
After a night's sleep, the food in the intestines has been almost completely digested in the morning and urgently needs to be replenished. If breakfast is not eaten well, lunch will inevitably be much larger, causing excessive burden on the gastrointestinal tract and leading to gastrointestinal diseases such as stomach ulcers.
IV. Unbalanced nutrition and low immunity
Skipping breakfast for a long time will not only lead to insufficient intake of energy and nutrients throughout the day, but will also cause hunger pangs around 9 or 10 am, resulting in excessive friction on the intestinal wall, damage to the intestinal mucosa, and digestive system diseases, leading to malnutrition. As a result, the body's immunity will be reduced and the body's resistance will be greatly reduced.
5. Prone to gallstones
Skipping breakfast means the stomach continues to move even without food, causing the stomach acid secreted at night to irritate the stomach lining. This not only damages the gastric mucosa but also prevents bile from being expelled, leading to the precipitation and deposition of cholesterol. Over time, this increases the risk of gallstones. International studies have confirmed that 80%–90% of female gallstone patients aged 20–35 have a habit of skipping breakfast.
VI. Affects learning and work abilities
The brain needs to draw on glucose from the blood, or blood sugar, to function; this is the only energy reserve the brain can utilize. If you skip breakfast or eat an inadequate breakfast, your blood sugar level will be relatively low, thus failing to deliver sufficient energy to the nervous system for normal functioning.
Editor's Note: For your health, choose healthy methods to lose weight. Do not over-diet or skip breakfast! A balanced diet and healthy lifestyle are essential for healthy weight loss.
