Page No: 16 Dulwich Despatch
Healthy-Eating: Breakfast (My Year 7 Wellbeing Project)
Breakfast is an early morning meal, which is the first snack you consume every day. It’s a word that splits into break + fast; this is commanding you to break up your fasting as you’ve been sleeping and for teenagers, haven’t eaten for more than eight hours. In this essay, it will help you understand the potential of breakfast and will lead you to have a healthy lifestyle in the future. After many people claim to skip their breakfast because it isn’t worth fitting in, it is vital you understand that our morning snack is ‘the most important meal of the day’. Now, more people are underestimating the value of breakfast: it only benefits us. Skipping breakfast is like a car driving with no fuel. Besides, for children, their growing bodies and developing brains need regular refuelling often from healthy and starchy food. Without this refreshing meal, your body will be empty because you haven’t consumed for numerous hours. Eating breakfast is important because it provides you with essential vitamins, minerals, proteins and fibres which you need to be at your best. Since our morning meal helps you control your weight, it is proven that leaving out your energy - providing food results in a higher risk of getting obesity, for it makes people more likely to snack throughout the day and eat a larger meal at lunch and dinner. As the famous saying goes: ‘breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dine like a pauper’. In order for you to lead a healthy lifestyle, it’s important you consume low - fat and nourishing food choices that will help you to obtain a good physical shape, such as eating a variety of vitamins, minerals, proteins and fibres. As well as this, you should always have your five a day, which is almost all fresh fruits and vegetables. Mentioning vegetables, it is essential that you should only use a small amount of vegetable oil, so you decrease your fat. In addition, another healthy food choice is to employ a small amount of low - fat spread or to take benefit from a spread which is high in unsaturated fat that achieves in lowering your cholesterol. Accompanied with the spread, a healthy wholemeal roll will keep you fit, giving you more fibre. Despite consuming one nutritious meal, for anyone to sustain their fit body, it is crucial to keep a healthy balanced diet by trying not to have the same meal too often but to change to a another meal which is also high in vitamins, minerals, proteins and fibres. Moreover, if you do buy cereals for your healthy lifestyle, don’t forget to check if it’s low in sugar and salt. To add to the cereal, for a way to keep a fit routine, you should use low - fat milk. Consuming breakfast is vital because obtaining your perfect body shape is dependent on what meals you eat. Gorging on a big fruit salad supplies your five a day and to offer a nutritious meal, you can add a variety of fresh, frozen, tinned fruits and dried healthy fruits in the salad. Along with this, a healthy breakfast uses starchy food such as bread which is beneficial to your health, it can be wholemeal, granary or even a toasted fruit bread. Another option can be a wholemeal English muffin matched with a full English breakfast resulting in a tasty, health - giving meal. If struggling with money, porridge oats are the real deal; they are cheap, and contain essential vitamins, minerals and fibres that help your fitness with sliced fresh fruits but without adding salt into your porridge. Furthermore, another breakfast could be a wholegrain cereal which is full of fibres along with a plain low - fat yogurt that helps in leading a healthy lifestyle. If you have enough free time, a worthy, delicious meal is poached eggs and mushroom on toast, which offers a refuelled body of energy. However, if you have a lack of time, you can try make a packed breakfast the night before and put it in the fridge; a quick snack to produce is a cheese sandwich which to be most healthy, is made with a wholemeal roll, low - fat spread and a small wedge of cheese. Last but not least, a meal can’t be finished without a refreshing drink such as a fruit smoothie or a 150ml of 100% fruit juice, providing a happy stomach. In conclusion, if you want to have a fit, nutritious daily routine of a healthy breakfast, which is recommended, you will know how. By now, you know the benefits of breakfast and that it is ‘the most important meal of the day’. By now, you know the different healthy food ideas, such as your five a day that produces a fit breakfast which will make you strong and fuelled for your day. By now, you know a variety of energy - packed meals you need, which all adds to you being a hale and hearty human. Janoshan Manoharan 7E
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