The document discusses the significance of breakfast as potentially the most important meal of the day, particularly emphasizing the role of a protein-rich breakfast in supporting muscle health and preventing overeating. A study indicated that breakfast can improve appetite control and diet quality, while also contributing to increased satiety and reduced cravings. The author shares a personal perspective on how a protein-rich breakfast positively impacted their glycemic response in managing type 2 diabetes.

1. Breakfast:
Is It The
Most Important Meal
of the Day?

2. Breakfast: Most
Important Meal of the Day
Could mom
have been right when
she insisted that
“breakfast is the most
important meal of
the day”?

3. Breakfast: Most Important
Meal of the Day
Protein
is important in
building muscle and
repairing the muscle
we currently have.

4. Breakfast: Most Important
Meal of the Day
Aging is associated
with loss of muscle mass.
However, muscle is rich in
mitochondria which is the
metabolic engine or the
kitchen of the body.

5. Breakfast: Most Important
Meal of the Day
The loss of muscle
mass with age is often
associated with a decline in energy
metabolism which in the elderly
can compromise
balance, ambulation and even
simple issues such as getting up
from a chair or simply
getting out of bed.

6. Breakfast: Most Important
Meal of the Day?
In today’s world,
everything has to be
researched and
accompanied with social
proof for it to be
believable.

7. Breakfast: Most Important
Meal of the Day?
A Missouri study
did exactly that showing that
breakfast leads to beneficial
outcomes in the
appetite, hormone, and
neural
signals that control
food intake.

8. Breakfast: Most Important
Meal of the Day?
The addition of
breakfast, particularly one
rich in protein is a potential strategy
for preventing overeating and
improving diet quality by replacing
unhealthy high-fat or high-sugar
foods snacks with high quality
breakfast foods.

9. Breakfast: Most Important
Meal of the Day?
The consumption of
high-protein breakfast
leads to increased fullness
or “satiety” associated with
reductions in brain activity
that maybe responsible
for controlling
food cravings.

10. Breakfast: Most Important
Meal of the Day?
One take home
from this data is that
eating a protein-rich
breakfast is one potential
strategy to prevent
overeating and as a useful tool
for combating overweight
and obesity.

11. Breakfast: Most Important
Meal of the Day?
As one who has had
to deal with Type 2 Diabetes
my experience following a
protein rich breakfast, was
minimal glycemic response.
Eureka! My breakfast
plan was born.

12. Breakfast: Most Important
Meal of the Day?
Could mom have
been right when she
insisted that “breakfast
is the most important
meal of the day”?