How many times have you heard the phrase "breakfast is the most important meal of the day"? Well, in this case it is not only an age-old myth, but a medical truth. A Balanced breakfast can help improve your mental functioning, affect your mood, influence a healthy weight and reduce the risk of chronic diseases later on in life. When you skip breakfast it can act as "nutritional boomerang "and adversely affect your mental and physical state, both in the short and long term.

Even so, about 30% of the population don't bother with breakfast restuarants (and no, instant coffee does not count as breakfast). Among the most common excuses are: I don't have the time to fit in eating in the mornings, I'd rather save those calories, I forget to eat, if I eat in the morning I feel more hungry later on in the day and more.

So if you belong to the "excusers", you should read the following facts:

breakfast jump starts your metabolism and fuels your body for the rest of the day. It will help you be more alert and maintain a more efficient metabolism.

During the night, your body significantly reduces its activity. In the morning, after a full night's sleep, the body starts activating its systems and organs back, and for that it needs "fuel" and energy. If your body does not get enough energy it will start addressing energy stores in the body. The result: we feel weak, less alert, and the time required for us to wake up and start the day takes longer than usual.