Wednesday 18 July 2012

The Importance of 3 meals a day

Breakfast
Timing is everything, ancient ayurvedic healers observed that your digestive fire, also known as agni in Sanskrit, follow the same rhythm as the sun. it ignites in the morning, intensifies at noon, and dims in the evening. So allocate our meal clock accordingly with the sun's energy.There is also an old saying that you are what you eat. 

"Why 3 meals? First of all, 3 is the minimum that is reasonable for most people to expect to work into their schedule every day. Also, 3 a day leaves you adequate time to digest each meal before adding the next."

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. A good breakfast provides the nutrients that everyone needs to start their day off right. Eating breakfast gives you a mental advantage. When we start off the day, our body needs needs fuel. Glycogen stores start to deplete, therefore if we haven't had any food, until lunch we would be very fatigued and in severe cases, we might start losing focus and concentration as well as the ability of thinking and problem-solving.

“There’s some physiology to it — eating breakfast prevents you from bottoming out and getting too hungry,” explains Susan Kraus, MS, RD, registered dietitian at the Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey.

Without eating breakfast, you’re more vulnerable to cravings and less likely to make healthy choices in the morning and throughout the day,” says Kraus.

Research shown that kids do better in school when they've eaten a high fiber, low glycemic index breakfast. if we regularly skip breakfast in the interest of saving time, calories, or getting a few more minutes of sleep, remember that eating a wholesome, nutritious morning meal will probably save you time in the long run. By recharging the brain and body, you'll be more efficient in just about everything you do.

The information above comes from Importance of Breakfast



Lunch
 As a matter of fact, majority of us skip lunch or quickly rush through it because there's too much to do. "Research studies have shown that more than 44 percent of office-workers in America routinely skip lunch so that they can run errands or get work-related stuff out of the way.

But, during the night rolls in, the side effects of a missed lunch start to hit. you may experience
  1. Tired
  2. irritable
  3. constipated
  4. keep tossing and turning in bed. 

Now, Why lunch matters, by noon, your hard-working body has exhausted its supply of energy, and needs refueling. If you choose to get rid of lunch and compensate with coffee and something sugary, you're setting yourself up for nutritional disaster.  Things only get worsen when you eat a big dinner to make up for the day's demands.

finished working? Overworked? Burnout?

Over Exhausted?


The information above is come from  The Importance of a Good Lunch

Dinner
For young children, meals  can be a time for learning about good manners, and how to communicate with others in the family. Most of the time, majority of family mealtime are normally at night, where children and parents are free from school and works. So, family meals also indirectly playing a huge role in children' lives.

When families dine together, they tend do communicate with each other while enjoying their meal, and that's time the parents are able to know the problems of their children and. Besides, teens who regularly eat dinner as a family are less likely to take drugs, drink alcohol or smoke tobacco.

For more information of the importance of Dinner please visit The Importance of Family Dinner

After acquiring the information above, we should know how to allocate our daily meal accordingly. So, in order to take a good care to our body, once again, 3 meal a day is a necessity. Not only to restore our daily-used energy, but also to have healthy lifestyle. 


 

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