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should be titled "eating cereal for breakfast" as it's specifically about cereal other kinds of breakfast (full-English etc) are healthy
by vbuwivbiu 7y ago
should be titled "eating cereal for breakfast" as it's specifically about cereal
other kinds of breakfast (full-English etc) are healthy
- ubercow13 7y agoMore healthy than skipping breakfast?
- TheSpiceIsLife 7y agoIt depends. Growing people may need to eat more frequently. Personally I like to have breakfast at my first break at 10am, so I’m fasting for longer each day. I’m not that far off 40, and if I’m honest I probably don’t need an evening meal either.
- INTPenis 7y agoYeah I came here to make the same observation, this article is, as most things on HN, very US-centric. Being a european I've mostly eaten granola, porridge, müsli or sandwiches with cheese and meat for breakfast. But I've still always heard that breakfast is an important meal, without any association to cereal. Just the fact that I'm hungry in the morning when I wake up should be an indicator. Everyone's mileage may vary.
- asaph 7y agoI'm never hungry in the morning. That should be an indicator that I should skip breakfast, which I often do.
- foobarian 7y agoI always thought the focus on breakfast came from our peasant roots. My ancestors were field workers and eating a huge breakfast + lunch made sense from an energy input standpoint.
- ken 7y agoThat's another factor that this summary (and possibly the cited research) ignores. What do you do before lunch? The two people in the video appear to be knowledge workers.
- ubercow13 7y agoMaybe you're hungry in the morning _because_ you eat breakfast
- GordonS 7y agoI'm in the UK, and since being a kid I've always heard "breakfast is the most important meal of the day". This was never specifically about cereal, but that's what most kids in the UK eat for breakfast - especially given at the time we were all told fat was evil, and would basically kill us. Nowadays I don't eat breakfast, as it helps control my weight, and TBH I don't miss it. When I started doing this, I thought about those "truths" I'd been fed as a kid, and suspected they came out of paid-for pseudoscience. A year or so ago I actually looked into this, and sure enough, all these claims about breakfast are from studies sponsored by Kellogs, other cereal brands, or companies closely associated with them. Governments base policy on these kind of claims, and over time they become unquestioned "truths" - paid-for, corporate science shilling really is an absolute fucking scourge on society.
- stuaxo 7y agoFull English is healthy ? I know we have come full circle with regard to protein and fats, but having that much fried food all at once doesn't seem like a the most healthy thing. It usually comes with baked beans - the sauce has a high sugar content. I don't eat particularly healthily myself, but saying full-English is healthy just sounds like nonsense.
- BFLpL0QNek 7y agoIt is healthy-ish, depending exactly what you have, how you cook it and quantity and how frequently you have it. The healthy version will look significantly different than the greasy spoon version dripping in oil. I’ll do a full english with scrambled eggs, sourdough toast, mushrooms in a little butter, home cooked beans, 2 rashers of rindless bacon with a tiny amount of oil fried or grilled, maybe a slice of black pudding, I may even put avocado on the toast.
- nradov 7y agoIt's probably fine if you're going to spend the next 12 hours plowing a field with a team of oxen.