Skipping Breakfast Could Be Damaging For Heart, Study

Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published November 16, 2017 | 09:20 AM

Breakfast first meal of the day is essential to maintain a healthy body

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 16th Nov, 2017 ) :Breakfast first meal of the day is essential to maintain a healthy body. It is always said that first meal should be like King's rich with nutrients.

Eating breakfast has countless benefits whereas skipping it, might land you in trouble. Yes, if you are the one who doesn't like to munch on something after waking up, you need to change your habit as it may impact on your heart.

Skipping breakfast has all sorts of disadvantages. In short-term, you may feel irritated, hungry and unable to concentrate. Skipping breakfast might make everything harder for you. It might encourage you go for unhealthy options.

Like shorter term consequences, not eating first meal might land you in major health problems.

It impact on your metabolism, Health news reported. According to American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, skipping breakfast makes it difficult for body to regulate metabolism which impact response of body to insulin and inflammation development.

According to a study, published in Journal of the American College of Cardiology, skipping breakfast and heart disease are interlinked. Around 4,000 people took part in the study, it is disturbing to learn that atherosclerosis occurred frequently in those who used to skip breakfast.

Moreover, this condition is also responsible for narrowing and hardening of the arteries, which increases chance of stroke and heart attack.