Bad belief in skipping a meal?

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The Spanish newspaper "Confedencial" talks about the impact of skipping a meal on the body. An expert confirms that people who neglect one of the daily meals are more hungry than usual and end up eating more heavily.

Many people like to eat and eat more, especially at work or sitting at a computer, the newspaper said. Once the abdomen is full, the person decompresses one of the pimples, or the dress, as a sign of overabundance. The brain sends the signal that it is not necessary to have dinner for the rest of the day.

The newspaper asked if it was healthy to skip a meal. When a person wishes to diet and has an urgent need to get quick results, she directly thinks to stop the dinner. But almost all nutrition experts agree that this is not based on scientific fact and they do not recommend skipping meals.

The problem of skipping diets lies in the feeling of deprivation of the body. "When people eat one of the basic meals, they are hungry and eventually end up eating more at mealtime, which means that they have not achieved any real results and that they are not eating. they have not lost weight, "said Dr. Brooke Albert.

A study conducted in 2017 and published in the Journal of Spanish Nutrition Science showed that the best meal plan is to have a lot of breakfast, an average amount of lunch and a light snack after five or six hours. Which means getting into a sort of fasting at night, according to the old wisdom that says, "Make your breakfast like the king, and your lunch as the prince, and your dinner as the poor."

The newspaper warned that completely skipping a meal increases the levels of tension in the body, which reinforces the desire to eat. For this reason, this step is not helpful because later on it will make us eat excessively, then enter a spiral of guilt and self – reproach. Dr. Albert pointed out that "intermittent fasting is not beneficial for everyone and that the best solution is not to skip meals, but to control oneself and take appropriate amounts."

Intermittent fasting does not lead to weight loss but has positive effects: the digestive system gives time to analyze previously eaten foods. Studies have shown that during these periods of non-eating, the digestive system relaxes and reduces infections, which helps prevent long-term stomach illnesses.

Many decide to skip one of the daily meals, especially at work, as they think it will allow them to perform better.

But this belief is false, because intermittent fasting can prevent us from feeling bloated and overloaded, but increases our hunger to eat because of the low level of glycosemia. When we do not provide the necessary food to the brain, we send the body the message that it is time to reduce the effort.

The obligation to fast intermittently makes the person sad and moody, but in return, it lasts longer. In a study conducted in 2018 and published in the journal "Sal Metabolism", researchers found that fasting mice were healthier and lived longer than those who ate more. Although these mice did not eat well, the researchers concluded that this experiment proved the benefits of fasting.

The newspaper warned people that if they were going through a fast to lose weight, as for those who do not eat dinner under a diet, this will not achieve the desired result. A study published in 2017 in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that a healthy diet and intermittent fasting have the same long-term effects. The weight of the first group of volunteers, including those with an intermittent fasting diet, was close to the weight of the second group, where participants had a healthy diet.

In conclusion, the paper concluded that the idea of ​​skipping meals had both positive and negative aspects. There is no doubt that it's up to everyone to choose, especially as the Christmas season approaches, as well as the wealth of meals and tasty meals in the family.

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