Posted on 03/31/2010 6:52:50 PM PDT by Steelfish
A High-Fat Breakfast of Bacon and Eggs May Be The Healthiest Start To The Day, Report Shows
A high-fat breakfast of bacon and eggs may be the healthiest start to the day, a new university report showed.
31 Mar 2010
For the first meal eaten after a night's sleep appears to programme the metabolism for the rest of the day, the researchers found. And the age-old maxim "Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper" may in fact be the best advice to follow to prevent metabolic syndrome, according to a new University of Alabama at Birmingham study.
Metabolic syndrome is characterized by abdominal obesity, high triglycerides, insulin resistance and other cardiovascular disease-risk factors. The study, published online March 30 in the International Journal of Obesity, examined the influence exerted by the type of foods and specific timing of intake on the development of metabolic syndrome characteristics in mice. The UAB research revealed that mice fed a meal higher in fat after waking had normal metabolic profiles.
In contrast, mice that ate a more carbohydrate-rich diet in the morning and consumed a high-fat meal at the end of the day saw increased weight gain, adiposity, glucose intolerance and other markers of the metabolic syndrome. "Studies have looked at the type and quantity of food intake, but nobody has undertaken the question of whether the timing of what you eat and when you eat it influences body weight, even though we know sleep and altered circadian rhythms influence body weight," said the study's lead author Molly Bray, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology in the UAB School of Public Health.
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My neighbor has diabetes and eats a high carb diet with cereal for breakfast every morning (cheerios) and potatoes at night for supper, which he does not want to give up. His sugar is going through the roof. I told him to eat eggs and cheese in the morning with butter. He is afraid his cholesterol is going to be high if he does. I told him I heard that has been debunked. (Dr. Oz. and others). As for me, if I eat high carb meals I get acid reflux at night. If I eat low carb meals it disappears asap! I have also read that eating butter with a potato buffers the carbs being processed too fast and your insulin rises more slowly.
I don’t view it as a bad experience. It forced me to discover what the Japanese eat for breakfast. I’ve had lots of Japanese bento box lunches, lots of Japanese dinner cuisine, but never breakfast. That day, I learned a whole bunch of things.
So in the end, it worked out just fine, IMO.
I did gently try to explain to the hostess that Americans don’t like rubbery, pale bacon that looked as tho it had been steamed (or something other than fried). It was then that I learned that the hotel, in fact, had no griddle or fry-top, so they were trying to do the best they could with what they had.
The looks I got trying to answer questions about grits, biscuits and gravy, tho, were priceless.
Not necessarily recommending this diet but hey, she lived to be 98.
I understand what you are saying but I also know that for a lot of people the low fat diet was very detrimental to their health.
Notice the article didn’t mention amounts? And absolutely NO hash browned potatos OR grits.
What you *eat* contributes at most a mere 15-20% of the cholesterol in your system.
Your liver will cheerfully crank more out to make up for the ‘deficit”.
[that is how statins work....but “turning off” your liver’s natural functions, to some extent]
Homocysteine levels, C-reactive protein, LDL and LP(a) levels are much more important yet most cardio docs will sniff at you if you ask to have those levels measured.
ALL cardiac problems are but a symptom of a larger, holistic problem...usually systemic inflammation.
The problem is tracking down *what* is causing that inflammation.
The “cause” can be as simple and “harmless” a thing as dental infections or gingivitis.
In one study, 80+% of heart attack/CABG patients were found to have chlamydiae pneumonia antibodies present.
One little germ that never “made them sick” set up a silent whole-body inflammation...and wrecked their hearts.
Seriously.
IMO, if you eat food as God created it, you’ll do well.
Look at any box or can on the shelf.
The ingredients lists are a mile long.
I think a can of kidney beans should say “Ingredients: Kidney beans. Water”....but it sure doesn’t.
There’s a *list* on that can.
Your neighbor is digging his grave with his own spoon.
I hope he wises up soon.
It was the cigarettes, mamelukesabre.
One third pound of bacon.
Three eggs, basted in the bacon grease.
Two or three pieces of toast, slathered in real butter.
One pot of coffee.
The above breakfast was standard for my grandmother, till her death at 93 (everything else failed, her heart just kept on beating.) and it is a standard for my 80-year-old brother, who has absolutely no signs of coronary disease.
I’m worried about myself, though, because I sometimes just have fresh fruit and tea.
Whatever.
My paternal grandfather had the same diet and died of a stroke at age 88. Well, except he only ate beef and occasional chicken. No ham or fish. But lots of bacon.
Get a pig and eat it.
Save yourself!
This place has home made bacon that rocks!
Good grief, I looked at your profile and you appear young and thin. What the heck? A heart attack?
At a client’s request, we stayed at the (very expensive) Cerulean Hotel in Tokyo. The breakfast buffet was amazing....more bacon than you could eat, smoked salmon, and fresh squeezed OJ.
I have also been in gritty industrial towns in Korea where your choices for breakfast are Kimchi and don’t ask what it is. Those times I had Kimchi and coffee for breakfast and enjoyed that too!
Yep. A year ago this May. It was a near thing but being 38 at the time put some of the odds in my favor. Look, I still eat an some fatty foods and such, but what I really pay attention to is exercising, minimizing heavy fats (fats that coagulate at room temperature) and keeping my stress level low. Had I done those things back then I may not have had the attack at all.
The most important thing I learned though was to make sure that you are enjoying yourself. Had I died that day I would have done it pissed off, stress out, and unhappy. Screw that. At least do what you enjoy.
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You make a lot of sense. Stress is a horrible thing and I’m definitely one of those folks that lets it get to me. Glad you’re doing okay.
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