Is Having a High Fat Breakfast As Bad As You Think?

March 31, 2010 By Mark

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2471143926_a1721f55d3 Is it really such a bad thing having a high-fat breakfast because we are constantly told to steer clear of high-fat foods and is the old saying eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and tea like a pauper or supper as some people call it depending where you live.

In order to avoid getting metabolic syndrome, which encompasses quite a few diseases such as diabetes high cholesterol levels and heart disease, etc. It might be a wise move to take notice of the saying above and put it into practice.

Some recent research which has been conducted finds this is the case as regards what time you eat foods and when as to whether or not you gain weight. This has been a point that has been argued for a long time now by the industry as a whole so perhaps what is being written here may finally put that to rest hopefully.

The study which was published in the International Journal of Obesity looked at what type of foods people eat at what time and to see if there was any reasons as to why people may get metabolic syndrome because of the time and type of foods they ate.

The research found that mice fed high fat meal when they had woken up had a normal metabolic function and were far less likely to contract metabolic syndrome. Compared to mice who had a high carbohydrate breakfast and a high fat evening meal they tended to have increased weight gain and all the things that encompass a changed metabolic function.

A lot of studies in the past cite the amount of food that people eat and the types but nobody has really looked in depth whether it matters at what time you eat your food and what type of food it is you eat. The researchers found that when the animals were fed a high-fat breakfast this created a metabolic effect, whereas compared to a high carbohydrate breakfast they stayed in what is called a carbohydrate metabolism.

Which doesn’t work effectively as regards using energy within your body as fuel, so it seems that it’s quite important the breakfast that you eat and how it affects your metabolism throughout the day does matter.

Another thing that they found from the study was that eating a low calorie dense food at night seems to work just as well. This is yet another fascinating piece of research that just goes to show and prove.

That it matters what time you eat food and what type of food you eat, can make a big difference to whether or not you will lose weight. It certainly does seem to turn a lot of things on their head, which may have been said previously about what you eat at breakfast.

What does anybody else think about this research does it hold water from what you have found yourself? Have you put weight on because you eat high carbohydrate breakfasts and fatty foods in the evening?

Source http://www.sciencedaily.com