Shan’s Blog

Importance of having Breakfast”

Breakfast can help prevent strokes, heart attack and
sudden death. Advice on not to skip breakfast!

Healthy living
For those who always skip breakfast, you should stop
that habit now! You’ve heard many times that
“Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.”
Now, recent research confirms that one of the worst
practices you can develop may be avoiding breakfast.

Why?

Because the frequency of heart attack, sudden death,
and stroke peaks between 6: 00a.m. and noon, with the
highest incidence being
between 8: 00a.m. and 10:00a.m.What mechanism within
the body could account for this significant jump in
sudden death in the early
morning hours?

We may have an Answer.

Platelet, tiny elements in the blood that keep us from
bleeding to Death if we get a cut, can clump together
inside our arteries due to
cholesterol or laque buildup in the artery lining. It
is in the morning hours that platelets become the most
activated and tend to form these internal blood clots
at the greatest frequency.

However, eating even a very light breakfast prevents
the morning platelet activation that is associated
with heart attacks and strokes. Studies performed at
Memorial University in St.Johns, Newfoundland
found that eating a light, very low-fat breakfast was
critical in modifying the morning platelet activation.
Subjects in the study consumed either low-fat or
fat-free yogurt, orange juice, fruit, and a source of
protein coming from yogurt or fat-free milk. So if you
skip breakfast, it’s important that you change this
practice immediately in light of this research.
Develop a simple plan to eat cereal, such as oatmeal
or Bran Flakes, along with six ounces of grape juice
or orange juice, and perhaps a piece of fruit. This
simple plan will keep your platelets from sticking
together, keep blood clots from forming, and perhaps
head off a potential Heart Attack or stroke. So never
ever skip breakfast.