Just as automobiles require gasoline to fuel their engines and keep them running, so too do human beings need food stuffs to feed the brain and keep one’s body energized.

The American Dietetic Association say breakfast is one of the most important meals of the day.

“People skip breakfast thinking they’re cutting calories, but by mid-morning and lunch, that person is starved,” Milton Stokes, chief dietitian for St. Barnabas Hospital in New York City, said. “Breakfast skippers replace calories during the day with mindless nibbling, bingeing at lunch and dinner. They set themselves up for failure.”

No other place is malnutrition more evident than on campus.

One may walk around campus and see students munching on gummy bears for breakfast while they sip on a Sprite soda beverage.

Or, one may see students hauling around a white paper-bag from the golden-arches across the street, which, although it is a valid meal, does not provide one with the necessary protein or fiber content the body requires.

Breakfast is important for improving one’s metabolism.

Many seem to think that skipping breakfast helps one to shed the pounds, but really, those who eat breakfast were proven to eat fewer calories overall during the day, accoring to www.webmd.com.

“When you don’t eat breakfast, you’re actually fasting for 15 to 20 hours, so you’re not producing the enzymes needed to metabolize fat to lose weight,” Elisabetta Politi, nutrition manager for the Duke Diet and Fitness Center at Duke University Medical School, said.

Breakfast is the first chance for the body to re-fuel its glucose levels.

Glucose, or one’s blood sugar, is what fuels the muscles needed for physical activity throughout the day, as well as what is essential for the brain, as it is it’s main energy source.

“Eating breakfast is very important for the brain and the body first thing in the morning,” Los Angeles registered dietitian Gail Frank, spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association, said. “Breakfast skippers often feel tired, restless or irritable in the morning.”

Not eating regularly, eating poorly and bingeing are some of the things that aid the acquiring of diabetes.

Type-2 diabetes is more prevalent than ever in this country. Maybe eating breakfast, along wth eating healthy, could help quell the unnecessay spread this illness.