Which Is the Best Breakfast to Start Your Day?

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Are you one of those people that has a rushed breakfast in the morning, just literally anything you can find even if it is full of sugar and as a result of this your energy levels will come crashing down later on in the day making you feel hungry.

The Daily Mail did an experiment to see which breakfast would keep a person’s blood sugar levels consistent until dinner time and beyond.

Are you one of those people that has a rushed breakfast in the morning, just literally anything you can find even if it is full of sugar and as a result of this your energy levels will come crashing down later on in the day making you feel hungry.

The Daily Mail did an experiment to see which breakfast would keep a person’s blood sugar levels consistent until dinnertime and beyond.

According to them breakfast should be made up of three food types protein, fibre and carbohydrate. The crucial thing is the overall GI rating of the actual breakfast that you eat, in case you are unaware what it means GI stands for glycaemic index.

This is a measure of how long it takes for the body to break down the glucose within the food, if you take something like a chocolate bar for example this will have a very high GI index and will be broken down into glucose very quickly so you get a sugar rush.

You would get the same effect if you ate something like marmalade on toast with some butter, this initially would give you a quick boost as far energy is concerned but eventually you would have to eat very soon again.

So the researcher decided to eat breakfast at the same time each day which was8 a.m. in the morning, and track his blood sugar levels to see what differences there were between each breakfast, so here is what he ate.

On Monday he had two slices of wholemeal bread with marmalade on, things like marmalade and strawberry jam are essentially high sugar content foods, when you eat foods like this they get absorbed into your bloodstream very quickly.

And during the middle part of the morning say about10 o’clock you will start to feel very hungry, after two hours the researcher said that he was feeling ravenously hungry and his blood sugar readings were very high.

This breakfast scored a rating of 4/10

On Tuesday he ate two Weetabix biscuits with some semi skimmed milk, Weetabix tends to be a bit of a better breakfast because of its consistency it is harder for the stomach to break down Weetabix, although the milk in the sugar is a contributing factor as well as far as the GI of the meal is concerned.

For this to be effective as can be it is best to have a bit less milk and more Weetabix try for a 50-50 balance. The researcher said he felt full for three hours, he said he had no cravings for sweet foods either having had eaten it.

They scored a rating of 8/10

On Wednesday he had a fruit salad and a yoghurt the fruit salad comprised of grapes, mango and watermelon this in its entirety has very little sugar, approximately 1 tablespoonful and very little fat. The researcher said that after two hours his stomach was rumbling and may have been tempted to have a snack hadn’t it been a experiment.

This scored a rating of 2/10

On Thursday he ate two croissants, with butter and strawberry jam and a glass of orange juice this didn’t fare particularly well as almost half of this particular breakfast simple carbohydrates, the only thing that would slow the absorption rate down of food would be the butter.

The researcher’s stomach was craving food and he had difficulty concentrating after three hours had passed.

This scored a rating of 6/10.

On Friday he had two boiled eggs two with toast and butter, out of all the breakfast this had the lowest sugar content, which is good news this particular meal would be slow in releasing its sugar because of the fat in the eggs, and not so much the bread so this is quite a winning breakfast. The researcher was able to work for four hours without feeling hungry, and had sustained energy levels throughout.

This scored a rating of 7/10

On Saturday he had porridge with honey and semi skimmed milk, because of the way porridge is as in its consistency and the amount of fibre it has in it, it takes a long time for the stomach to break this down which is a very good breakfast indeed compared to the others. The researcher felt full for four hours after eating it, which is a excellent result.

This scored a rating of 8/10

On Sunday he had a full English breakfast, ingredients wise it had two sausages, one rash of bacon, baked beans, tomato, slice of fried bread and a fried egg. The only downside of this particular breakfast was compared to the other was the amount of calories, which was 1,219 which is an awful lot it is about half what a man should eat in a day.

It is also very high in fat approximately 102 grams which is an awful lot, even though breakfast like this would fill you up substantially it’s probably not a wise idea to have as much food as is the case in this particular English breakfast.

Even though the researcher enjoyed the breakfast, after a while he started to feel quite sleepy. And said that as far as feeling full was concerned this was the clear overall winner. He said he didn’t even need to think about lunch an hour after the test had finished.

This scored a rating of 10 out of 10.

Do any of your breakfast eating experiences relate with this? if so please leave a comment as I would be interested to know which breakfast keeps you going the longest as I can relate to what is being said here.

I am going to put a poll below this post to ask which is your favourite breakfast it might give other people, ideas of which to eat.

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Source

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk

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