Eat a Healthy Breakfast from Yo Naturals!

Author: John Schell on behalf of Yo Naturals. Go to www.yonaturals.com to find out how you can start your own healthy vending business!

You know that, “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day,” but
did you know how this applies to your weight? Kick starting your
metabolism with food that will keep your GI tract working efficiently
can help stop mid afternoon snack cravings.

A major reason that breakfast is such an effective meal for weight loss
is that it typically consists of foods that are high in fiber. A high
dosage of fiber is crucial to smoothly working digestion. You might
associate fiber with regulated bowel movements, but fiber also has the
effect of slowing down the digestive tract. By keeping food from moving
quickly through the ileocecal valve, fiber manages to keep your stomach
full for longer.

Some other added benefits to a few more whole grains in your diet
include a steady blood sugar level through the day, and reduced caloric
intake for up to eighteen hours. A healthy place to start is to add 1 to
2 grams of dietary fiber before eating and before going to sleep.

Ultimately, an ideal is to get around 30 grams of dietary fiber each
day, with as much as possible in the morning. By eating foods like
fiber-rich cereal, whole grains, oatmeal, and fruit, you’ll feel fuller
longer and won’t get hit with a growling stomach an hour after lunchtime.

People often try skipping breakfast in order to lose weight, but this is
simply counterproductive. Missing meals doesn’t fool your body into
thinking that it is fully fueled, but rather robs the brain of
all-important glucose and slows down the metabolism in order to conserve
energy. Early morning crankiness and candy bar cravings kick in, and by
lunchtime your body thinks that it needs a porterhouse to get satiated.

Tests have shown that children who eat a healthy morning breakfast score
better and have fewer behavioral problems than those who didn’t. You can
bet that the same holds true for job performance. And a sugary breakfast
doesn’t count. For all the reasons that sugar-filled foods (which tend
to be high in calories from fat) aren’t good for you, a bowl of fruit
loops has the added deficit of behaving as if you didn’t eat a breakfast
at all. Plus, now your metabolism has started working, and by nine
o’clock you’ll be hungrier than you were when you woke up.

There are a hundred and one reasons to bail out on breakfast, but
there’s one all-important reason to eat well: you. Getting your body’s
requisite allotment of fiber and healthy calories will insure that you
coast through the day, instead of crashing every time a Snickers isn’t
within arm’s reach.