Skipping breakfast affects your health.
Skipping breakfast is associated with increased risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease, loss of bone density, menstrual cramps in women, and may even affect cognitive performance in children and adolescents.
1. Skipping breakfast increases the risk of heart attack because skipping breakfast may lead to one or more risk factors, such as obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes. Over time, these factors will lead to a heart attack.
2. The risk of stroke is 1.18 times higher for people who barely eat breakfast than for those who eat breakfast every day.
3. Skipping breakfast alters the expression of the “biological clock gene,” which affects postprandial blood glucose and insulin levels, impairs metabolism, predisposes to weight gain, and increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
4. Children who often skip breakfast may not get the recommended daily intake of key nutrients (calcium, magnesium, iron, etc.), which are closely related to physical development.
5. Skipping breakfast, fasting for too long, and storing bile in the gallbladder for too long, leads to supersaturation of cholesterol in the bile, which in turn causes cholesterol deposits and the gradual formation of stones.