Is Breakfast Important?

By Jacobus Hollewijn

May 12, 2025

Your Daily Health Pearl Minute # 14

Back in 1996 I wrote this in my weekly Health Pearl:

“Breakfast is a very important part of our day.

Our body just wakes up after an eight-to-twelve hours fast.

It is important to activate our brain and all other organs with the right nutrition, so we have energy and mental alertness.

Many of us are in such a hurry in the morning to get to work or (to get) the family out the door, that we “forget” breakfast, or don’t give ourselves time. We should eat a good breakfast before we head out the door. By skipping meals, our metabolism slows down. Then, when we do eat, our food may not break down properly, whereby a majority of proteins and carbohydrates will be stored as fat (and we will gain excess weight).”

Háh, so much new information has come out since I wrote all this in 1996; it’s hard to tell anymore if skipping breakfast is damaging; or if eating breakfast is benefitting?

Besides, what is breakfast anymore? Bagel with coffee? Cereal? Oatmeal? Bacon ’n Eggs? Bulletproof coffee? Egg McMuffin?

Breakfast means different things to different people.

Perhaps you are someone who does Intermittent Fasting, and therefore you only eat twice a day in an 8-hour window.

I think the most important step here is high-quality food when we DO eat!

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