Breakfast. Take it. Or leave it.
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- Опубликовано: 28 фев 2016
- Lately, I've become a target for people who like to tell me that "I'm doing nutrition" wrong. Evidently, some people don't agree with my plea, "Don't judge" when it comes to what others eat.
One of the things that horrifies my friends is that I don't eat breakfast. I'm just not hungry in the morning. A cup of coffee, and that's all I need until lunch. I've been that way for decades.
This means that I'm subjected to periodic lectures on how breakfast is "the most important meal of the day". Yeah, that's a myth. It's also the topic of this week's Healthcare Triage.
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So you're not saying "Don't Eat Breakfast!"....you're saying "Don't eat breakfast if you don't WANT to eat breakfast."
Makes sense.
+TheLoreSeeker more if you're not hungry don't eat breakfast.
huh, eat when you're hungry... that's unAmerican!
+Dave Power #6 =)
where the crappy food is processed, and where the sky's the limit with portion sizes. Why not increase the quantity of how much we eat too while we're at it?
The main problem I faced when in school was not being hungry before leaving for school (breakfast time) but then being hungry halfway through the morning around 10. This was a problem because I had to wait to eat until lunch at noon because I was in class.
If students feel the need to eat at different times than others but are only allowed to eat at specific times of day in school, doesn't that create many instances of students' disruption of focus if they become hungry in class? That leads me to ask - is hunger something you can train to specific parts of the day?
This is one reason why I am so thankful for teachers in college that have let me eat in class as long as it doesn't disrupt others.
Great video and I love this channel!
Just some knowledge from a lecture or two I attended at University - it does appear that hunger is something you can train to specific parts of the day and is much more a habit rather than the body actually needing nutrients at that specific time. It's just that the body prepares in advance for when it expects a meal to be, but you can train your body to expect a meal at a different time. That aside I do feel your pain as I felt much the same way. I am starving at 10am. I think this is because I trained my body to have brunch at 10:30 at school, but then while emlpyed breakfast would have to be no later than 6 and then lunch at 12. While I do agree that the feeling sucks. I think you can train it and it's not even all that hard. Unless there's complications like being forced to have it one way a certain amount of time and then another way during another part of the week.
I think you can change your eating habits. It's just like any other kind of conditioning. You'll have to keep consistent in only eating at the target hour and only at that hour. But it takes time work.
You may notice a cycle in hunger, IE. you start feeling hungry 6 hours since the last meal. If you go eat too soon or too late from that cycle you'll be breaking the conditioning and feel hungry at the wrong hours again. I'm not so sure about changing the hunger cycle, I suggest respecting it to keep things simple.
I had the same problem n high school. The worst of it is usually in the morning, I wasn't not just not hungry. Usually eating would actually make me nauseous until later in the morning. I was bad and would bring a snack that I'd eat during a passing period to hold me over until lunch.
I change my eating schedule to fit my school schedule and never have a problem with it. It just takes me several days to adjust when I do.
dont eat after 8pm or 20.00 whatever time ur using. and ur probably more hungry in the morning since eating after 8pm is not good for ur organs and body overa since its stopping to digest after that time and ull have a higher chance of getting fat and also its not good sleeping with a full stomach
I always thought breakfast was incredibly important and felt guilty for not being hungry enough for breakfast first thing in the morning. Then I took biochemistry at university and learned about human metabolism. Despite being one of my least favorite modules, I quickly realized that the human body is perfectly capable of going a few extra hours without food after waking up, and the bloating and discomfort that results from eating when you're not hungry can be more impairing than the alleged "lack of energy".
The bottom line: eat breakfast if you're hungry, don't force yourself to eat if you don't feel hungry.
most people who are not hungry in the morning are the ones who stuff themselves in the evening...you are basically still digesting your previous meal...
some mornings I need breakfast, some I don't... It depends on how much I ate the night before and whether I'm going to be physically active in the morning
When I was in middle and high school, I never ever ate breakfast. Then there were random days where someone offered me something on the bus or I just wanted something on my way out the door. I ended up so PAINFULLY ravenous again by 10:30 I literally could not think about anything else. I'd start to shake and need a snack teachers refused to allow. I'd sit there staring at the clock _praying_ for lunch bc my body was soooooo mad. I can promise you I ate buckets full by the time I got there. Not less. And did so for snack too. Those in the breakfast-is-metabolism-boosting--so-weightloss camp forget this often happens too. If I had zero breakfast, I'd get hungry by noon and eat a modest or light lunch. I could pay attention through all my morning classes and wasn't in physical pain. School was a breeze.
My sister, however, would faint by 9:30 without breakfast. Everyone's different. So shush.
Huh, didn't know this was a misreported topic. Guess I have a friend to apologize to.
It seems like those who force kids to eat all the food on the plate is traditionally the 'done' and healthy thing to do, except in reality you're forcing bad habits around eating when they aren't hungry to them and taking away their ability to self manage food intake. To this day I feel bad if I have food left on the plate even if I'm full already. Eating breakfast when not hungry seems to be the same.
+Neth Dugan That sounds like more of a case of reducing food waste and encouraging kids not to take more than they can eat.
+Neth Dugan the eat whats on your plate thing started when i would self manage my portions at dinner and stuff and it was to show myself what i actually needed to eat to be full as i often "had eyes bigger than my stomach" and now as an adult i will often want more food than i actually need but am better able to control that due to the experiences of my child hood so i waist less food.
your milage may vary of course
This one for me is tough because I find that parents who don't make their kids eat what's on their plate end up giving them snacks later on which normally aren't healthy.
Well said Neth. I made a decision years ago to stop eating when I'm full, or to only put as much food on my plate as I feel that I can manage.
It's amazing how often it draws strange looks, comments, or even disapproval!
i dont eat breakfast, and i will almost never hear the end of others bitching about how i eat.
+Rinoa Super-Genius Send them this video!
+Rinoa Super-Genius Woah, you watch HCT too? You have excellent taste, in what you watch (and upload) on youtube.
Thank you. I honestly believed that breakfast was essential before I saw this video, and this explanation encouraged me to revise my opinion. It's especially helpful coming on theheels of a bad argument between me and my brother about whether marijuana cures cancer. The success of this show gives me hope for scientific literacy despite plentiful reasons to give up on it.
This is the first myth debunking video on this channel that certainly shocked me.
thank you for this, I'm never hungry in the morning and my family has always been on my case about it!!
i feel you
Same here only if I forget to eat at night
Most important meal of the day, huh? Munch on this bag of sugar
... um... cereal!
Aaron Caroll is my spirit animal I swear. My grandmother literally tried to bully me into having a glass of milk for breakfast as I was watching this.
Thank you as always for reviewing the research with a critical eye. I think it should definitely be thrown out there that this is for the general public and should not be consider health advice for those with chronic diseases.
If my kid isn't hungry in the morning right when they get up and aren't huge breakfast fans in general, I would at least have them take a protein bar and a piece of fruit with them to school to eat later on when they're hungry.
+argella1300 That's a super great approach. I wish my family did that, unfortunately they were the type to make huge meals and force you to eat it all. Now as an adult certain negatives aspects from that still linger :/
+Mariel A. That's a bummer man *hugs*
This is one of the most eye opening things I've ever seen! I'm a big breakfast person, and could never see why you'd want to miss it. I guess I'd never gone 'to the research!' Before. Excellent as most of the time you are.
Thank you for dispelling the myth that you should eat-and ignore your body-when you aren't hungry. For some of us, eating before we've been up for several hours is a nauseating prospect. I have 3 siblings, and one of them shares the no-breakfast thing with me. My daughter doesn't do breakfast either, and my niece is the same. I can't tell you how many times I have been tut-tutted about this, and my niece has also been interrogated about her eating habits. It's crazy! I'm going to share this video with everyone.
Forcing yourself to eat when you're not hungry is probably going to lead to weight gain. Generally speaking, your body will tell you when you need to eat. If you wake up at 6 but don't want to eat until 10 then don't eat until 10... It's never made sense to me why we all try to force ourselves to conform to the idea that you HAVE to eat 3 large meals a day in order to be healthy.
Not going to lie, I was 100% one of those people who would tell their friends that eating breakfast 'will start their metabolism'
Thank you for providing me the information to better understand the situation and to stop me from spouting nonsense.
In fact, I found the information in this video so easy to digest I might offer it to those friends for breakfast...
Can you do a video about the effects of bad oral health long term
lol oral.... I agree actually like brushing flossing and mouthwash
+abialo2010 I agree, I would like to see a video on that as well. c:
Aye. Oral videos all around.
Basically, the long-term effect is that you become British.
Thank god for this video.
For me it's not just a case of not being hungry in the morning. If I do eat in the morning when I don't feel like it, I feel ill. I have skipped breakfast for a while thinking it probably wasn't great but I just didn't care. Now I'm really happy to see this video.
Someone recorded this in the morning and is hangry! LOL, seriously, I’ve skipped breakfast for 25 years and think it’s been key to maintaining a healthy weight; with increased serving sizes, I can’t see how you can maintain a healthy weight with 3 oversquare meals a day. Another added benefit is that when intermittent fasting became a thing I was already doing it. Good stuff!
This is one of those things that has been drilled into my mind since I was born, and I really want to thank you for making a video on this topic.
Just an anecdote but, back in grade school, there were many kids who were not hungry in the morning and skipping breakfast (me included). But we did not last until lunch, instead, the vast majority ate a few chocolate bars from the supermarket before the school lunch and since we already were full from eating the chocolate, we skipped lunch as well.
this is genuinely very relieving to hear. I too have never eaten breakfast, and lately have been force-feeding myself food in the morning as part of a new diet. Thank you for freeing me from this unpleasant cycle. I'm gonna stick to the other methods (reducing food later and light exercise).
Best video yet - I'm loving your style, Aaron.
Well then. I used to be the person telling others to make sure they had breakfast because it was the "most important meal of the day". Thanks Kelloggs for making me feel breakfast was soooo important. At least I know now that wasting my time in the morning to fit breakfast in isn't needed, I was the one putting food in my stomach without being hungry. Guess there is no need for that.
tj mccormick dwl
Wait... This sounds like you're saying that everyone's different. HOW DARE YOU SIR!!!
;)
Wow like your channel
I have to say, I am finding this channel increasingly satisfying to watch.
Like many, I've been feeling incredibly frustrated by the disinformation, science denialist and anti-intellectual age that we've been living through.
Sure, I am also frustrated by how slow science can be at times - particularly when it slows progress on critical social, environnemental or medical decisions or policy. Perhaps this is something science educators can help to address. Perhaps the scientific community could find ways to accelerate areas of research where the public is growing frustrated. (We did it for COVID with limited success in mitigating public hysteria.)
There might even be a critical health decision i need to make now and then where getting a little ahead of resolved scientific consensus is a worthwhile risk. (Many people are feeling this way about psychiatric conditions and experimental treatments with psychedelics for example.)
But I find great comfort and clarity in good communication about current scientific consensus. We need to help others come back to the fold and invest a little more faith and patience in the scientific method.
Let's promote this channel and and any others like it.
I eat breakfast, and i am still stupid. Guess this video was right.
Maybe you should eat your breakfast at HIGH NOON!
HAZZZAR! Thank u for backing my 'I just don't want it!' Disposition. Mum spent my entire 1980's-1990's childhood/adolescents forcing breakfast on me - in the end it was a mug of Milo and (yucky) skim milk.
Took me years into my adulthood to quit the sugar addiction it created.
I'll never forget in college when my brother and I had a 7:00 am class. I had to make sure I had finished eating before my brother came downstairs because even the smell of food made him nauseous that early in the morning. He usually ate breakfast at around 8:30 or 9, and everyone was constantly giving him grief, because he "didn't eat breeakfast." And yet, he still was one of the best hurdles in the school and carried an extremely high GPA. The comments both of us would get from well-meaning friends and acquaintances drove us both nuts.
Thank you for this! I've never wanted breakfast, don't eat it, and don't see the sense of forcing myself to eat, ever (and no, I don't overeat at lunch or at any other time of day). Also a good point, to always check who's funding any "study" and whether they have a financial interest in the outcome.
Are you going to do a news video on that ridiculous "Millennials are killing breakfast" stuff that's floating around? I've already had arguments about it where I had to actually pick up a box of cereal and point out that it's full of sugar and not much else. As a fellow breakfast skipper I'd love to hear your thoughts on the matter.
+Mike Hoth Ah kid's cereal! Now that I am kind of an adult, I realize all the things I grew up eating were kind of terrible. Now I eat my frosted flakes as a dessert :P
I mean, I never eat cereal. I may have plain oatmeal or something, but that's as close as I get. I always found the vast majority of cereal to be lacking in proper nutrition and that I would be hungry an hour or so later.
Thank you! Finally.. I never liked eating breakfast and still don't usually eat before 10-11 am. People tell me that I should change it, but when you don't feel like eating, why would you eat? Mind you, when you are trying to loose weight, people tell you "eat only when you're hungry..".. so why breakfast should be different? Why should it be good to force ourselves to eat it?
Thanks for the video. Great to have some facts to support my not eating breakfast habit ;)
Colossus wouldn't lie, he's so nice.
you should make a nutrition playlist on your channel. Sometimes I'll try and find old shows that you've done it be nice if I could just weed through and find the ones that relate to what I'm interested in at that moment! Your show is awsome and I am always recommending it to all my friends and family
always nice to see more research on this. In high school I stopped eating breakfast and would just have a glass of milk because any more would give me nausea for like, an hour after, and I never got actively hungry until near lunchtime anyways.
Thank you for convincing me to try not eating breakfast. I've been finding it harder and harder to eat in the mornings, and this information is just what I needed to give me the motivation to try changing things up.
Jacob hitting up the coffee pot before school
It was hard when I was going to high school and my mom was always like "eat your breakfast!" I nibbled what I could, but eating so soon after I wake up just makes me feel sick. I prefer waiting an hour or two before I eat (or drink, sometimes) anything.
I am glad to hear all of this. Growing up I never wanted breakfast, I wasn't hungry, My mom believed that I had to eat breakfast because of all the studies saying I had to. She would make me eat breakfast before going to school when I wasn't hungry, and this would often lead to stomach aches and an inability to focus in school. It wasn't until high school when I woke up before her that I started not eating breakfast and no longer had my morning stomach aches, solidifying for me that I really shouldn't probably be eating it in the first place.
Thanks for this video. When I was into bodybuilding a few years back there was a constant barrage of bro-science concerning meal frequency (six meals a day to "stoke the metabolic fires" etc.), and I used to force-feed myself two meals before I was ready. After looking a bit deeper into research, it appeared that meal frequency in a day had no impact on weight loss, I dropped breakfast and ate first in the afternoon. Not only did I lose more weight because I was cutting my total calories, but I felt better. I'm just not a wake-and-eat person.
I never wanted to eat breakfast, but because people kept me telling I should I started doing it by taking some sort of nutrition shake (this was adviced to get more used at eating in the morning). Now I am hungry every morning and I have a great 'need' for sweet stuff. When I eat in the morning, I keep wanting to eat the whole time and sweet stuff the most. So I actually gained weight since I started to eat breakfast. Also my eating habbits got more unhealthy. (more sugar)
I am going to train myself to skip breakfast again the next time I have two weeks free, because this breakfast routine they adviced me was a disaster for me personally.
+Mimou Yup, same here. Except I don´t eat much sugary stuff. But I also started to gain weight when I started to have breakfast. I've also decided to re-train myself.
yes!
most of the time I don't feel like eating half an hour after I wake up.
and on the days that I try and eat like a banana with cashew milk people at work call me out calling it "not a real breakfast"
I once even forced myself to drink shakes in the morning because I just "had to eat breakfast".
this makes me feel better. I will eat my small dose of whatever and if someone tells me that's not breakfast I will link them to this.
I've always had gastrointestinal problems and I've noticed that when I skip breakfast I generally develop more stomach aches through the day. When I eat it I have less problems with my stomach. I think this is because my stomach produces more acid when I am on an empty stomach. SO I guess I have a physical reason to eat breakfast.
This is not true , your stomach generally produces acid as food moves into the stomach to aid digestion
It the most important for me: but I do wake up hungry.
Totally agree with you. I stopped taking breakfast, simply because of laziness and lost 6 kg in a few months. This helped my diabetes and now I don't feel hungry in the morning. Just have a mug of coffee without sugar and this is enough for me till the middle of the day.
You are always hungry in the morning when you have a small dinner the night before. Still it’s great idea skip dinner or eat very small dinner than a good breakfast in the morning have lots of energy to start the day’s work. It's great way to keep a trim figure.
Love it!Even better - the ad that I sat through first was for cereal!
I absolutely love this video!
Dude...Thank you so much for this.
I remember reading advice to eat breakfast within a half an hour of waking up, but I normally don't eat my breakfast until an hour and a half to two hours after I wake up, because that's how long it takes me to get hungry.
Thanks for this, ever since I've lived alone I've just been eating brunch and dinner, and I like it.
love love love love this.
Got to bookmark this!
Very convincing. And I sure do agree that lunch food is pretty lame when compared to the breakfast stuff :)
I wake up at 5:00-5:30am, people say I should eat at that time because "skipping breakfast is bad" but that's more of a midnight snack than breakfast. No way I can force anything down my throat beside water at that hour.
Excellent video as always
This video made me stop telling people that they must eat breakfast. Although personally, starting to eat healthy and full breakfast meals is how I started turning my grades and life around in highschool. Though that also coincided with me drinking a light cup of coffee every morning too. So it was probably the coffee more than anything..... thanks coffee
uuuhhh! now you have taken this personally... but masterfully! Congrats, great video.
Thank you! Even as a kid, I didn't want to eat breakfast. I'm never hungry and I don't like breakfast food.
Best channel ever.
I am a breakfast skipper since I was a little because I'm rarely hungry in the morning. All I need is a glass of milk in the morning and I don't need to eat anything until lunch. I know about the video from March 2014 on why we do not need milk but that's the only time I drink milk. It's because of that video that allowed me to explore other options and ever since I switched to lactose free milk; I feel even better about not eating breakfast.
Eating breakfast always just makes me starving by 10:30. I never really had a desire to eat breakfast but I used to force myself to eat a lot in the morning hoping I'd make it to lunch better but instead I'd be even more hungry by lunch time and eat the same amount or more. Eating anything rich would just make me feel really sick until I got hungry for lunch.
Overall I've been way happier just having some water or something in the morning and then going until lunch and I dunno why so many people have to keep going "But breakfast is the most important meal of the day!" Thanks for making this episode. I had no idea it was based in shitty science.
Technically you can only skip breakfast if you don't eat all day. Breakfast = breaking fasting. So if you don't eat until lunch, that lunch is your breakfast.
Carbon Sure, if you want to be a smartass.
@@pisse3000 being a smart ass is great! You're an ass, which is the best looking part of a person, and you're smart which helps with income. Who wouldn't want to be a smart ass?
Totally correct point. Well said! We are playing with words here, the point is exactly that: When our last meal is yesterday's dinner, it is important for our metabolism and wellbeing not to eat belatedly in the new day that has started.
Hello, this channel is awesome.. im learning a lot here. Do you have a video on fasting ? I've been reading about it but I didn't find a video from your channel on that subject, maybe im looking wrong, if you have one please give me a link! if not, would be amazing if you did one on fasting, pro, cons, etc. Keep it up! you are doing a great job for the world
PREACH!
Aha YES!! Man you're doing gods work! Keep it up!
I’m addicted to this channel
Had a really tough time stomaching this video as I am currently in treatment for an eating disorder and I have to force myself to eat breakfast every single day despite really not wanting it. I know this is an individual circumstance and recognize that not everyone's in the same boat; I just had to put that out there.
great channel
Most days I eat breakfast, if only an apple. Diets are very idiosyncratic. One should eat when hungry and eat the foods that make one feel well.
I can't survive till lunchtime without eating
THANK YOU!!! I grew up with everyone and their brother nagging me to eat a good breakfast, but I just am NOT HUNGRY when I first get up (my daughter is the same). I found it quite interesting that the studies that said I should be eating breakfast were all funded by breakfast industries...figures. I am pretty sure that eating on a schedule came about because it made things convenient for those preparing the meals. But if offered a self serve kitchen everyone eats when they are hungry and it all works out.
I never used to eat breakfast until I started taking a medication that requires eating at a regular and early time during the evening. Now, enough time has passed from dinner to wake up that I'm hungry. Thanks for justifying my years of not eating breakfast.
OMG yay, someone finally said it. i have never been abke to eat in the morning, it makes me feel nauseated. i cant eat before 3 hours after having woken up, which is usually 10am, after my first lecture
I am still asleep at 7 in the morning and sometimes do not wake up until the afternoon.
THANK YOU
I was always forced into eating breakfast when I was young and I get nauseous in the morning
Thank you for this video. Skipping breakfast has always been a hot topic between me and my parents/grandparents. One interesting thing is that many health discussion in the States puts a focus or significant weight in weight loss. I am from China. Though it is preferred to not be overweight, most health discussion does not put weight loss as a main focus. So when my family is discussing skipping breakfast, they are always arguing skipping it might be bad for the stomach in long term. Although I can think of a counter-argument that if my stomach is being damaged, I will feel it and feel the desire to eat. However, I thought about drinking: alcohol is bad for stomach, but two beers or two shots of tequila usually don't make people feel stomach discomfort -- while I assume even two shots are bad for the stomach and the long term effect can be found only after perhaps 10 years of a life style with 2 shots everyday or every two days (like skipping breakfast everyday). What is your take on the long term impact on stomach from skipping breakfast? Sincerely, Ran
Same for me - ExCEPT when I have very heavy gardening or other work to do - or when I was travelling a lot. I forced myself to eat oatmeal or similar otherwise I would be actually faint by lunch.
As a non breakfast eater this may be my favourite video yet.
That's why here in Israel the custom is to eat aruchat eser -- a small breakfast-like meal at around 10 am or so. People leave for work or school early with maybe only a cup of coffee or even nothing to eat/drink and then have a food break around 10 am, when blood sugar is getting low. Much smarter and more natural to how the body works.
you are the best
This dude gets me, and my not wanting to eat breakfast tendencies.
Can you do an episode on the effects of not feeding your kids certain foods at a young age? For example I just read about a study where they gave some babies peanut snacks in the first 5 years of life and another group of babies no peanut snacks for those 5 years and there was an 80% drop in the rate of peanut allergies in the kids that DID eat peanut snacks
+RainAngel111 ya ive seen a couple studies on that as well, more or less it came down too let your kid try everything and the more they touch the less likly they are to be alergic to it
Gotta love this video, since I'm also not a big breakfast person. I grab a banana or muffin or something at like 9:30 during the week. I need something to keep me going until lunch, but I feel terrible if I try to eat too soon after waking up.
It's really awful when I have to travel for work, too. So many hotels are serving breakfast buffet style, and it just doesn't work for me. I already have to be up early for whatever 8am start to the day we have, so I have to force myself to eat early as it is. But when it's buffet style and I'm paying $15 for a banana and a glass of apple juice, it really bugs me.
Had to share this video with my dad. When I was younger, he never understood why I never wanted breakfast. The idea of eating so soon after waking up is, at least to me, disgusting.
Wow! This is the first episode that actually surprised me. Having said that I'm always ravenous in the morning. I have a big breakfast, so.... To each their own.
Aaron, I have a question! Like you, I really really really dislike having breakfast. I have zero appetite during the morning. But I have Insulin resistance syndrome, and have been told that going long without eating makes it worse. Is that really the case? Throughout the video I was hoping you would cover this, but since you didn't touch the subject I decided to ask, haha. Thanks in advance, I love Healthcare Triage :)
Dude! Citations in the description please! That is why I came to your video.
Preach!
Usually i won't eat an early breakfast if i eat late at night.
Rap Zilla me too
FINALLY!
Now I can point some people to this video so I don't have to explain!
Thanks :)
Thank you for you bombdiggaty videos
yep
This changes everything. Didn't know about the breakfast myth
The most important meal of the day is the one you have before you go out drinking. I learned this the hard way.
HC, trying to give away common sense to the many poor souls that make it a misnomer. Thank you Dr Carroll
Sounds like my husband and me. I'm usually hungry shortly after waking up, he's usually not. On Sundays we do brunch, too. :)
Here here! Finally! I love breakfast.... Just not before noon!