Don't Skip Breakfast

Start your day with a healthy breakfast - you'll be more productive, happier and live a lot longer.

Do you skip breakfast? You might want to consider new research linking missed morning meals with increased risk of heart attacks.

New research published by Eric Rimm, Associate Professor of Epidemiology & Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health in the journal Circulation, finds that men who routinely skipped breakfast had a 27 percent higher risk of having a heart attack or dying from coronary heart disease compared to men who ate breakfast.

Worse yet, those who tended to eat late at night were 55% more likely to die than those who did not.

In an interview posted on NPR by Allison Aubrey, (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/07/23/204567839/SKIPPING-BREAKFAST-IS-RISKY Rimm pointed out that by simply changing what time of day you eat, you can have a huge positive effect on your risk of heart attack and a host of other metabolic issues: “It’s such a simple lifestyle change that people can make. This is a cheap one and should be a part of any primary care provider’s message to a patient.”

“Don’t skip breakfast,” concludes study co-author Leah Cahill, a research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health.

The long-term, 16-year study included nearly 27,000 men.

Previous studies dating back to a ground-breaking Alameda County study back in the 1960 have linked missing breakfast to excess weight, dyslipidemia, hypertension, insulin resistance, and diabetes.

Huffington Post has a “Quick Trick – Snack Stack” plan that is gluten free, healthy, nutritious and takes care of busy people who skip breakfast because they are out of time – check it out: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/09/gluten-free-breakfast-grain-free_n_3392053.html