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Is is true that not having breakfast may cause obesity? Why? |
Is is true that not having breakfast may cause obesity? Why? Skipping breakfast makes you fat, plain and simple. I can鈥檛 tell you how many people I know who think it鈥檚 just fine and dandy to skip breakfast and other meals to help them lose weight. Well, the cold, hard fact is that skipping breakfast will help you lose weight鈥攎uscle weight and not fat weight. So many people, especially women, don鈥檛 seem to care if it鈥檚 muscle they鈥檙e losing. They think it鈥檚 fine because they don鈥檛 want to look like guys anyway so who cares if you lose a little muscle. Well, ladies (and everyone else), here鈥檚 why you should care. Muscle is metabolically the most active tissue in the body. Just to keep one pound of muscle alive鈥攖hat means doing nothing but just keeping it alive鈥攊t takes about 50 calories per day. Fat requires a big fat goose egg. What? I鈥檒l say that again. Fat requires zero calories per day! Now, when you go longer then three hours without eating, your body goes into a catabolic state. I鈥檒l talk more about this in other articles, by the way. When you go into a catabolic state, your body uses its own muscle tissue for fuel. OK, let鈥檚 digress a bit and make a comparison. Let鈥檚 say we have two women both 5鈥?鈥?tall. They are the same age and the same weight. However, one woman has 110 pounds of lean mass while the other only has 100. Now, they both weigh the same, remember that. First off, the woman who has more muscle mass probably wears a dress two sizes smaller than the other woman. Secondly, that same woman can eat about 500 calories more each day and maintain her weight! Now tell me, ladies, what鈥檚 wrong with muscle? Guys, you already know you want to keep the muscle you have plus build on it. You just need to know how to do that right. So, the more muscle you have, the more you can eat. Why are you skipping breakfast again? Oh yeah, you wanted to lose weight. Hmmm鈥et鈥檚 take this a bit further.. OK, so, you鈥檝e started skipping breakfast. If you鈥檝e started skipping breakfast, you probably have also stopped eating after a certain time in the evening. 6pm seems to be the 鈥渕agic鈥?hour for starting states of semi-starvation. That means from 6pm until, oh, say, 6am, your body is getting absolutely no fuel to run its activities. That鈥檚 twelve hours! Remember the three-hour deal and catabolism? Your body is eating itself just to stay alive. Now, if you continue this, you will lose weight. However, you鈥檙e losing muscle mass. So, you鈥檝e lost weight but you鈥檝e also put your metabolism in the toilet! Why鈥檚 that? Food helps fuel your metabolism and keep it running on high! That鈥檚 right. You have to eat to lose fat! Shocker, huh? So, once you鈥檝e finally realized the error of your ways, you鈥檙e down maybe ten pounds, say eight of which are muscle. You鈥檝e just cost your basal metabolic rate 400 calories a day! That鈥檚 a lot of food! For those 400 calories you鈥檝e just cost yourself, you could have eaten 4 ounces of roasted, boneless, skinless chicken breast, 6 cups of lightly steamed broccoli and an orange. Wow! You see, logically, it now makes sense to eat breakfast and every other meal for that matter, right? You always want your body to be a fat-burning machine and skipping meals turns your body into a fat-storing system. Skipping meals makes you fat. You don鈥檛 want that. Is it breakfast-time where you are? If so, go eat! If it鈥檚 not, start planning your healthful breakfast for tomorrow morning. Source(s): http://www.fitness-advice-guide.com/skip... When you start your day your body starts to boost up the metabolism and is expecting a meal to feed it. If it gets no meal it slows down the metabolism and starts storing fat because it thinks there is a food drought. Breakfast in the morning goves your metabolism a kick start. And those who deprive themselves in the morning are more likely to over eat in the later hours of the day. Hope I helped! It has truth to it. Not all people who skip breakfast will be obese though. The thing is that eating breakfast gets your metabolism started for the day. That way you'll be burning more calories throughout the day. When you skip this important meal then your body takes more time to get itself going. Because its the most important meal of the day! You've been fasting all night, so going a few more hours without eating will most likely leave you famished and weak by lunch and dinner. When you're that hungry you tend to overeat. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.ht... |
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