Breakfast or not?

After looking at the all of the blogs that my fellow students posted, I noticed that most people skip breakfast, which I do as well. I feel like the big part about skipping is breakfast is time, personally in the morning, I wake up at 7:55 just to make it to class in time. Also, most people are not starving in the morning, and they do not think about being hungry until about half way through class. Growing up, everyone’s parents always stressed that breakfast was the most important part of your day, however once we grow older, a lot of people find that sleeping that extra 30 minutes is well worth it.

“Skipping breakfast is becoming a common trait among modern urban families everywhere,” (Sundaram) Since many people are on the rush in the morning, it is hard for people to be able to make time in the morning to make breakfast for everyone since they have some many things to do themselves. There are many different negative effects for not eating breakfast, like not being able to focus or being tired for the day. However there are many more serious effects to someone’s health. Accroding to Sundaram’s article, a person can gain weight because their metabolism does not start until the first time the person eats. Also, people are more likely to have unhealthy snacks when they do not eat breakfast. Along with gaining weight, when people do not eat breakfast, they are more likely to develop diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure.

The best way to start your day of with breakfast is to have a well balanced meal with fats, proteins, and carbs for energy and vitamins to help the body. “It is said that breakfast should approximately meet one-third of your daily nutrient requirement. Both the regularity and quality of what is prepared are important,” (Sundaram) If you are going to McDonald’s Breakfast every morning is not going to help you feel and look better. The best way to have a good start is to make sure that the food being consumed is high quality and good for the person eating it. So making sure that you start off the day with a good break fast is huge not only for how you feel that day but also how you feel in the long run.

Some people have very different things for breakfast based on how much time they have, and many people only end up getting a cup of coffee. However, coffee just masks the hunger and does not actually help. However, Sundaram mentions that people should drink buttermilk or fruit juice to give their bodies what they really need.

After reading about all these facts of eating breakfast, I am reassured that eating breakfast is extremely important. Unfortuantly, I do not think that this will change my eating habits because sometimes there just does not seem to be enough hours in the day. On a usual day, I do not finish all my things until midnight at the earliest so waking up at 7 am just to get some food before my 8 am does not seem worth the lost 30 minutes of sleep. Though, if I were to notice extreme fatuige or anything wrong with my normal functions, I would start to eat breakfast just to see if that would help. Overall, I just do not believe that college students have a lot more things to worry about than eating breakfast. I am lucky if I can walk to my bed without stepping on something, so making it to breakfast would be a miracle.