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Health & Fitness > Nutrition Basics Why we need breakfast

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The primary reason breakfast is the most important meal of the day is physiological in nature. Sure we need to energy, but this could be said for any meal at any time.

When we go with out eating several hours (4-5) our energy supplies dwindle, and irritability increases. The time between dinner/last meal and arising creates an even greater pseudo-fasting state that naturally depletes the body of ready fuel, i.e. bloodstream glucose and liver glycogen. The absence of these primary resources causes the body to tap the secondary or reserve supply b.k.a stored fat, a function that the bod...

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