There are dozens of good, science-based reasons to eat breakfast every morning. There’s also a common sense factor.
Realistically, if you don’t eat breakfast, it’s almost impossible to ingest all the vitamins and minerals and other nutrients you need to stay healthy within a 24 hour period.
Snacks are such a part of the culture of the western world that we sell them in vending machines in our workplaces and hotels and in baskets and shelves at gas stations and pharmacies. Just in case we get caught without them, we keep a ready supply of snacks in our own home.
Of all the foods we love, sugar is our downfall. It’s sweet and instantly satisfying. It signals great things in life, like birthday cakes and festive squares and beloved family rituals.
It is also quietly undermining our efforts to live long and healthy lives.
Sugar can damage our hearts, negatively impact our ability to survive cancer, and slow our memory and cognitive skills, as evidenced in a host of controlled scientific studies.
Exercise is not necessarily synonymous with latex, toned bodies and gilded gym cards.
It is, in simple terms, just moving your body up a notch from its normal activity level. If your life up to now has been quite sedentary, a walk around the block or raking the leaves in your backyard is exercise. If you are a trained athlete, a 10-mile run might be exercise.