Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Eat your breakfast, unless...

Just found out that the song played in "Trio on a bed" was sung by Jolin Tsai...

Importance of having Breakfast.
Breakfast can help prevent strokes, heart attack and sudden death.

Advice on not to skip breakfast!

Tips for healthy living...

For those who always skip breakfast, you should start kicking that habit now!!

You've heard many times that "Breakfast is the most important meal of
the day." Now, recent research confirms that one of the worst
practices you can develop may be avoiding breakfast.

Why?

Because the frequency of heart attack, sudden death, and stroke peaks
between 6:00 a.m. and noon, with the highest incidence being between
8: 00 a.m. and 10:00a.m. What mechanism within the body could account
for this significant jump in sudden death in the early morning hours?

We may have an answer

Platelet, tiny elements in the blood that keep us
from bleeding to Death if we get a cut, can clump together inside our
arteries due to cholesterol or laque buildup in the artery lining.
It is in the morning hours that platelets become the most activated
and tend to form these internal blood clots at the greatest frequency.

However, eating even a very light breakfast prevents the morning
platelet activation that is associated with heart attacks and strokes

Studies performed at Memorial University in St. Johns, Newfoundland
found that eating a light, very low-fat breakfast was critical in
modifying the morning platelet activation.

Subjects in the study consumed either low-fat or fat-free yogurt, orange
juice, fruit, and a source of protein coming from yogurt or fat-free milk.

So if you skip breakfast, it's important that you change this practice
immediately in light of this research. Develop a simple plan to eat
cereal, such as oatmeal or Bran Flakes, along with six ounces of grape
juice or orange juice and perhaps a piece of fruit .

This simple plan will keep your platelets from sticking together, keep
blood clots from forming, and perhaps head off a potential heart attack
or stroke.

So never ever skip breakfast!!


I received the above article from a friend of my friend a few days back; I'm not really sure how true it is but prevention is always better than cure... I've always been told that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, because it serves as fuel to start your day off. I guess the early meal serves more than that. Not having time for breakfast will be the lamest excuse ever created. However, in my humble opinion, if you're taking the typical femes local breakfast such as Nasi Lemak, all types of Roti, all those fried fried oily oily stuff coupled with a glass of good old Teh Tarik, it'll be better to skip it...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

i told you so that breakkie is vital ages ago but you never listen. you only trust the article (sob sob)

Jed said...

I listened to you, just did not practise only because you used up all my breakkie money... HAHAHA!