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Breakfast Is a Dangerous Meal

By: Terence Kealey
Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
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Breakfast may be the most important meal of the day, but only if we skip it.

Since Victorian times, we have been told to breakfast like kings and dine like paupers. In the wake of his own type 2 diabetes diagnosis, Professor Terence Kealey was given the same advice. He soon noticed that his glucose levels were unusually high after eating first thing in the morning. But if he continued to fast until lunchtime they fell to a normal level. Professor Kealey began to question how much evidence there was to support the advice he’d been given, and whether there might be an advantage for some to not eating breakfast after all.

Breakfast is a Dangerous Meal asks:

  • What is the reliable scientific and medical evidence for eating breakfast?
  • Why do people suppose that eating breakfast reduces the total amount of food they consume over the day, when the opposite is true?
  • Who should consider intermittent fasting by removing breakfast from their daily routine?
  • From weight loss to reduced blood pressure, what are the potential benefits of missing breakfast?
©2016 Terence Kealey (P)2016 HarperCollins Publishers Diets, Nutrition & Healthy Eating Fitness, Diet & Nutrition Hygiene & Healthy Living Nutrition Healthy Diet Heartfelt

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I found this book to be very informative about many areas of health and well-being and Full on practical information , One of the best books I would highly recommend

Superb book

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I do like a research-based proposal for nutrition. This one is particularly well-read, sounding like an experienced professor rather than a robot, which some can veer towards. The idea is to challenge popular scientific myths such as 'breakfast like a king' and backs up refutations with sound analysis and evaluation of meta-research.

Has made me re-think my breakfast routine, and the impact of 'compliance' with popular ideas or old wives tales without actually checking their impact on my own system.

Well read, heavy science

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So, I've always considered myself naturally greedy. Hungry after breakfast and snacking all day. Even though I'd tried eating porridge and always kick starting my metabolism.
I had noticed that I lost weight if I skipped a meal or two but this was always condemned in the health books I read. Well the reason it turns out that I hit a wall of tiredness in the afternoon and was scoffing from 10.00 despite a so called healthy breakfast is an insulin spike!
Mr Kellogg was an excellent marketeer. Basically this book is all science and all common sense.
Great read, loved it, changed my life.

And the weight melted away.

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Being an intermittent faster (and I'll point out, not diabetic), I had noticed more sensitivity and fluctuation in my blood sugar levels on days that I wasn't fasting, and putting the recommendations of this book into practice has completely stabilised my blood sugar. Every time I mention the title of the book to people though, they freak out and state that 'breakfast is the most important meal of the day' which is what we've all been told. Try it out for yourself, I'd say (with the caveat that changes in diet need time to establish as habits).

The book itself is largely a literature review, which details the studies, agendas, and business of breakfast, which led to that common saying, behind which lurk the food industries. I was hoping for a more practical and advisory book, and in the last chapters, practical advice is given. The large portion of the book given over to a lit review I guess serves to reassure the reader of the book's authority (or more accurately, ease our certainty that breakfast is important for health, metabolism, etc and make us question at least where this belief originated).

I can't see this book being widely popular, as people seem very attached to food in general, and the belief in breakfast specifically. I can only say that for me, it has worked wonderfully. I approached it systematically and also measure my blood glucose levels. The book would be a very useful read for anyone with / at risk of diabetes, as according to the author this group stand to benefit greatly.

I've only knocked off a star as the contents of the book weren't as practical as I'd anticipated.

Invaluable

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loved the book, well laid out comprehensive, certainly won't have breakfast anymore.
great to see it slowly build up

very interesting book.

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