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Pearls of Health
Skip Breakfast, Get Fat!
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This title arrested my attention especially when I considered the statement in Counsel on Diet and Food p. 73, “It is the custom and order of society to take a slight breakfast. But this is not the best way to treat the stomach. At breakfast time the stomach is in a better condition to take care of more food than at the second or third meal of the day. The habit of eating a sparing breakfast and a large dinner is wrong. Make your breakfast correspond more nearly to the heartiest meal of the day.” In the 91st Annual Meeting of The Endocrine Society in Washington, D.C., June 2009, a team of researchers from the Imperial College of London presented this amazing study. 20 healthy, non-obese volunteers underwent a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scan to find out how eating affected the brain's “reward” center, which influences how the body perceives and responds to pleasure. The volunteers skipped breakfast and were scanned. During this
time pictures of high-calorie foods like pizza, cake and chocolate and healthier options like vegetables, salad and fish were presented to them. The reward center of the brain lit up more vividly and/or became more active when the high-calorie food pictures were shown, indicating these foods were more desired. But when the participants ate breakfast and underwent the same scan, the reward centers of the brain showed no differences in activity when pictures of high-calorie or low-calorie food were shown. The participants also rated how appealing they found each food picture. When skipping breakfast, high calorie foods were favored, but when breakfast was eaten, there was little difference. This corresponded to the MRI findings. So for better health eat a healthy and hearty breakfast every day! |
