Breakfast is important for health, provides energy for the body after a long night and starts a new day.However, choosing food for breakfast improperly not only loses the benefits of breakfast but also causes serious health as much as if you skip meals.
Nutrition expert Li Wanping (Taiwan, China) warns that there are dishes that do not contain not much greasy but still cause the body to gain weight fast as "drinking oil".There are also many good dishes but eating in the morning is harmful to health.Can mention 5 names that many people are fascinated below:
1. Cake pastry
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Cakes are easy to gain weight and harm health because it contains a lot of refined sugar, saturated fat and hollow calories.Eating regularly not only causes rapid fat accumulation but also increases blood sugar, causes fatigue and increases the risk of diabetes and cardiovascular.
Instead, choose whole bread, fruit or unsweetened yogurt to make breakfast healthier.
2. Processed meat
Processed meat such as sausages, cold meat or ham is easy to cause weight gain and health because of the amount of salt, saturated fat and high calories.Used often causes the body to accumulate fat quickly, increased bad cholesterol and susceptible to cardiovascular diseases.
In addition, additives such as nitrate/nitrite in meat also increase the risk of cancer.Instead of choosing this food, prioritize protein from eggs or fresh meat to make breakfast healthier.
3. Fried dishes
Fried dishes such as chips, spring rolls, or fried bread can cause weight gain and health caused by greasy.These dishes provide high calories, saturated fat, increase bad cholesterol and cause fat, especially abdominal area.
Eating regularly can increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and digestive problems.Instead, choose grilled, steamed or boiled foods to make breakfast both delicious and healthy.
4. Fruit
Eating fruit only for breakfast is not the perfect choice because of the lack of protein and fat for the body.This can make you feel hungry early and lack energy throughout the day.
Especially for sweet fruits, containing fructose sugar.Eat them at breakfast causes blood sugar disorders, gain weight faster and also harmful to health.Especially cardiovascular, liver and stomach.To balance, you should combine low sugar fruits with protein from eggs, yogurt or nuts.
5. Snack food
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Snacks such as biscuits, bim bim, chocolate are convenient but not nutritious for breakfast.They lack protein, easily cause excess energy, impaired physical impairment, and increase the risk of disease.
In particular, these dishes contain a lot of sugar, affecting dental health, increasing the risk of diabetes, cardiovascular, and cancer.In addition, it causes weight gain and high insulin content that can promote the growth of some cancers such as prostate and stomach.
Advice on healthy breakfast
According to Dr. Li Wanping, a healthy breakfast has 4 important principles: diverse foods, avoiding processed foods, restricting sugar and less grease.In particular, the diversity of food focuses on enough fiber + protein.Priority is given to dishes that are processed by simple methods such as steaming or boiling less grease, salt or sugar.Avoid refined starch, increase whole grains.If you choose a drink, use pure drinks, less sugar.
Source and photo: Ettoday, Family Doctor