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Intermittent Fasting and Breakfast: What You Need To Know
Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day? Or, is that idea just something we’ve been sold told? It is possible you could look, feel, and perform better if you break up with breakfast and try fasting instead? Read on and find out!
Article Shortcuts* A VERY Brief History of the American Breakfast* Is Breakfast the Most Important Meal of the Day?* What is Intermittent Fasting?* Types of Intermittent Fasting* Psychological Advantages of Intermittent Fasting* Health Benefits of Intermittent Fasting* Risks of Intermittent Fasting* Why Breakfast Skipping?* Intermittent Fasting Frequently Asked Questions* Interested in Trying Intermittent Fasting?
A VERY Brief History of the American Breakfast
Throughout history, breakfast has played a prominent dietary role in some cultures, and not in others.
In America, it’s just been the past 100 years that breakfast’s reputation has grown to become “the most important meal of the day.”
From what I found, Lenna Cooper gets the credit for breakfast's reputation. In a 1917 issue of Good Health, she wrote, “…breakfast is the most important meal of the day, because it is the meal that gets the day started.”
Coincidentally (or perhaps, not a coincidence…you can be the judge), Dr. John Harvey Kellogg was an editor. He was also the co-inventor of flaked cereal.
And so began breakfast’s reputation, paving the way for food companies to capitalize.
Breakfast cereal advertising has dominated food advertising for decades. Of course, cereal isn’t the only breakfast option. Toast, orange juice, waffles, pancakes, and toaster pastries are other common foods people eat for breakfast. None of these are necessarily healthy, although the packaging would lead you to believe they are.
High-protein options like eggs, meat and nuts, or protein shakes are a lot healthier, but they're not the norm.
For those who don’t eat breakfast at home, McDonald’s is the most common fast-food choice. Their launch of the Egg McMuffin in 1971 set McDonald’s up to dominate the fast-food breakfast market. Today, they own almost a fifth of the market share.
Is Breakfast the Most Important Meal of the Day?
Like many health and nutrition recommendations we’ve been sold told, the health benefits of breakfast are based on correlations.
When researchers identify patterns of behaviors occurring together, they sometimes believe that one causes the other.
This happens with health and nutrition research ALL…THE…TIME!
Here’s a perfect example.
I received this article as part of my Science Daily newsletter recently. The title of the article is Skipping breakfast associated with hardening of the arteries. The writing in italics is directly from the article. The emphasis is mine.
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By Tom Nikkola | VIGOR Training
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Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day? Or, is that idea just something we’ve been sold told? It is possible you could look, feel, and perform better if you break up with breakfast and try fasting instead? Read on and find out!
Article Shortcuts* A VERY Brief History of the American Breakfast* Is Breakfast the Most Important Meal of the Day?* What is Intermittent Fasting?* Types of Intermittent Fasting* Psychological Advantages of Intermittent Fasting* Health Benefits of Intermittent Fasting* Risks of Intermittent Fasting* Why Breakfast Skipping?* Intermittent Fasting Frequently Asked Questions* Interested in Trying Intermittent Fasting?
A VERY Brief History of the American Breakfast
Throughout history, breakfast has played a prominent dietary role in some cultures, and not in others.
In America, it’s just been the past 100 years that breakfast’s reputation has grown to become “the most important meal of the day.”
From what I found, Lenna Cooper gets the credit for breakfast's reputation. In a 1917 issue of Good Health, she wrote, “…breakfast is the most important meal of the day, because it is the meal that gets the day started.”
Coincidentally (or perhaps, not a coincidence…you can be the judge), Dr. John Harvey Kellogg was an editor. He was also the co-inventor of flaked cereal.
And so began breakfast’s reputation, paving the way for food companies to capitalize.
Breakfast cereal advertising has dominated food advertising for decades. Of course, cereal isn’t the only breakfast option. Toast, orange juice, waffles, pancakes, and toaster pastries are other common foods people eat for breakfast. None of these are necessarily healthy, although the packaging would lead you to believe they are.
High-protein options like eggs, meat and nuts, or protein shakes are a lot healthier, but they're not the norm.
For those who don’t eat breakfast at home, McDonald’s is the most common fast-food choice. Their launch of the Egg McMuffin in 1971 set McDonald’s up to dominate the fast-food breakfast market. Today, they own almost a fifth of the market share.
Is Breakfast the Most Important Meal of the Day?
Like many health and nutrition recommendations we’ve been sold told, the health benefits of breakfast are based on correlations.
When researchers identify patterns of behaviors occurring together, they sometimes believe that one causes the other.
This happens with health and nutrition research ALL…THE…TIME!
Here’s a perfect example.
I received this article as part of my Science Daily newsletter recently. The title of the article is Skipping breakfast associated with hardening of the arteries. The writing in italics is directly from the article. The emphasis is mine.