One of the reasons that we can tend to have problems in this particular country, is because of long-standing food traditions that have been with us for a very long time, such things as Chinese take-away’s, fish and chips and so on.

It is because we are so set in our ways that it can be hard sometimes to change our own eating habits, how many of us each day particularly, at breakfast time eat a full English breakfast. I really wouldn’t like to think of the statistics for this particular activity, but I dare say that a lot of people, up and down the country do eat a full English breakfast every day.

However just recently reported in a tabloid newspaper was a report that said eating a full English breakfast was no longer the ideal thing to do,they said that it could increase your chances of getting cancer by two thirds, or in monetary words 63 percent chance of contracting the disease.

People who eat eggs, sausage, and bacon with their breakfast are those that are at higher risk of contracting bowel cancer, this is based around eating two sausages and three rashers of bacon a day.

It’s all to do with the fact of how the sausages and bacon are processed these days, if you have 150 grams of processed meat such as is described, which consists of sausages and bacon then you are far more significantly at risk.

You may tend to think that is a good idea to have a robust start to your day by eating a full English breakfast, because it seems a very traditional thing to do, and if you are doing it on a regular basis then you really do have cause for concern about your health. Even if you only eat 50 grams of processed meat which is roughly a sausage, then this will likely to increase your risk by a fifth, but also fry ups are notorious for weight gain.

So you roughly know what you are eating when you eat a English breakfast, which may consist of the following foods fried eggs, bacon, sausages, mushrooms and tomatoes, fried bread, black pudding or baked beans and anything else that you may care to add to it.

Your average English breakfast probably adds up to roughly about 700 calories, and that is without any other things added to it like black pudding or baked beans etc.

Only a third of people are aware of the risks which are contained within processed meats which can ultimately lead to cancer related problems. Which does now raise a lot of concerns about whether it’s time to ditch the English breakfast, for something healthier.

There are lots of things which you can eat for breakfast, but you could try a healthier variation on this old favourite that we seem to enjoy so much. Here is my suggestion for a healthier English breakfast.

I would say if you’re going to have baked beans then go for a low salt, low sugar variety, baked beans are very high in fibre and protein, so there you have a healthy option for a start.

Then instead of using sausages try using Quorn sausages instead, these will be much better for you than eating processed sausages, a lot of people however don’t like the taste of Quorn sausages although when I have eaten them they have tasted okay to me so I wouldn’t have a problem eating them, you can always put a bit of sauce on them to spice them up a bit.

Instead of fried bread I would use toast instead, grill your tomatoes and mushrooms, poach your eggs instead of frying them, or as an alternative use scrambled eggs instead, and you can use a tin of chopped tomatoes or plum tomatoes.

The thing to remember is here think about the amount of calories that you will be eating, you don’t have to have all the ingredients that are listed above, you could just have three items, or which ever you prefer it doesn’t matter.

This alternative is by far a lot healthier and won’t be so laden in calories, the thing to remember is here that we do often tend to be traditionalists as people and don’t always think of ways to replace foods with other healthier alternatives.

Tags: breakfast, processed

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