SE5

Name: Zechi Zhang

WRIT 1133-27

Professor: Eric Leake

05/17/2012

Skipping Breakfast

Last week we recorded our four days’ meals and posted to our blogs. After I read other people’s post I found a very interesting thing which is most classmates in my class always choose to skip the breakfast. I think they just want to sleep a little longer and do not want to get up so early. But I think breakfast is the first meal of a day and it is a very important meal for beginning a new day. In order to improve my thought, I did some research for “Skipping the breakfast”.

In my opinion, people skip the breakfast for two reasons. The first reason is if you skip your breakfast you can sleep a little longer, by doing that you can rest well and can have more attention during the class time. The second reason is if you skip the breakfast you can lose some weight and keep a good figure. But skipping the breakfast can really help you on these two things? The answer is NO. From my research on a web site called WebMD-Better information Better Health said that “Skipping breakfast is often a big no-no if you are trying to lose or maintain weight because it leads to high-calorie cravings later (Skip Breakfast, Get Fat).” The researchers which came from Imperial College London, found 20 healthy, non-obese people to have a test. The test is to let these people not having breakfast at first and then showed them photos of high- and low-calorie foods. Then the researchers will observe how the brain’s reward center changes. And they found “The brain's reward center lit up more vividly, or became more active, when the person saw a high-calorie food as opposed to a low-calorie choice (Skip Breakfast, Get Fat).”But when these 20 people ate the breakfast the result is totally opposite. So we can know that skip breakfast will not help you lose weight, instead you will gain some weight easily.

For those people who think skip breakfast can save some time to sleep longer and can help you pay more attention, I also found some evidence to prove it wrong. From my research it said “Breakfast helps wake you up (Top 10 Reasons not to skip your breakfast)”. Studies show that “Eating breakfast helps improve memory and positively affects the tasks that require the retention of new information. Conversely, a hungry child can be apathetic, disinterested, and irritable when confronted with difficult tasks. Breakfast is the key. No doubt adults need breakfast as much as kids do (Top 10 Reasons not to skip your breakfast)”. So it is show that skip breakfast cannot help you pay more attention but will distract from your class.

All in all, not matter what reasons you skip breakfast is not a good choice. Actually even I always skip the breakfast, but after reading the articles which I found on the internet will help me to get rid of the bad habit. So from now have a good breakfast and get a better health.

 

Stacy, M, Keli. (2009, June 15). Skip Breakfast, Get Fat. WebMD. Retrieved From http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20090615/skip-breakfast-get-fat

 

Author, A. A. (Year, Mon, day). Top 10 Reasons not to Skip Your Breakfast. Woman Fitness. Retrieved From http://www.womenfitness.net/top10_no_skip_breakfast.htm