Magical Meal For Weight Loss

Do Not Skip Morning Break Fast .It fights obesity, diabetes, and heart disease all day

for mornings are a mad dash at your house, breakfast may seem like a luxury you can’t afford. But breakfast isn’t just important for kids. A Harvard Medical School study found that breakfast eaters have one-half the risk of developing obesity and insulin resistance, a major risk factor for diabetes and heart disease, compared with breakfast skippers. The researchers think that the key may be calorie control, and breakfast has an almost magical ability to help with that throughout the day.

Magical Meal

“When we eat, our body experiences something called the ‘thermic effect,’ which means we burn calories just by digesting and absorbing our food,” says Lona Sandon, RD, assistant professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. “If you get up at 7 am, skip breakfast, and don’t eat your first meal until noon, that’s 5 hours during which your calorie burn has slowed down,” Sandon explains.

Need more reasons to nosh? Breakfast eaters eat less fat and fewer calorie-dense foods all day, studies show, and consuming most of your calories early in the day means you’re less likely to overeat or snack in the evening.

Here or to Go?
The trick to eating a healthy breakfast is to stock up on foods that are easy to eat. Sandon recommends adding these foods to your grocery basket: fat-free milk, low-fat yogurt, orange juice with calcium, peanut butter, almonds, walnuts, bananas, whole grain cereals, breads, and waffles. And Prevention editors like these morning-friendly items:

Oster’s In2itive Blend-n-Go single-serving jar fits their blender, then converts to a dishwasher-safe travel cup. Check out Got Milk? Licuado recipes for calcium-rich, milk-based licuados (smoothies). Harvest Bay TenderFruit is almost as juicy as fresh, with the packaged convenience of dried. At supermarkets and health food stores. (Peaches: 102 cal, 0 g fat, 2 g fiber)