Do You Skip The Most Vital Meal Of The Day?

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    • Publish Date: Feb 15 2017 12:10PM
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    • Updated Date: Feb 15 2017 12:58PM
Do You Skip The Most Vital Meal Of The Day?

Urban Indians seem to have forgotten the wise man’s saying ‘Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper’ as a study shows. These numbers should serve as a wake­up call for us to set the nutrition equation right.

Breakfast should be the most important meal of the day in terms of nutrition, but in our cities it rarely is, show findings by HealthifyMe, a mobile health and fitness company. In fact, the study reveals that across India, breakfast is the unhealthiest meal of the day with the highest intake of carbohydrates and fats. These food items include dosas, paranthas, vada pavs, idlis, poha, and puris eaten with aloo subji. Dairy in the form of cow’s milk and curd is also usually had during breakfast which is healthy but does add to the meal’s fat content.



High consumption of fat indicates that people are at greater risk of heart disease and hypertension.
The findings also show that lunch and dinner are the healthiest meals in India in terms of protein­fat­carbohydrate balance. Dinner is also the most ‘protein­heavy’ meal of the day. Evening snacks are the fattiest meal of the day and the meal with the highest sugar content as a percentage of the weight of food. Fried and fatty foods like samosas, vada pavs, paani puri, chips, rusk and biscuits are the commonly eaten unhealthy snacks in India. HealthifyMe analysed 43 million food records of 1 million urban Indians across 2,00,000 locations. 

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Himanshi Dhawan Saffron Public School

Today, the world has turned into a busy place where everyone is racing with time and working hard to achieve their goals. In this fast-moving life where one has to get up at 5 and work like a machine till 8, I personally feel that it becomes very difficult for one to have a heavy breakfast as it is time-consuming and thus, they prefer to have a light breakfast and heavy lunch and dinner.

SNEHA - R Kulapati munshi bhavan's vidhya mandir

For the past few decades ,almost everyone have forgotten the importance of breakfast and this has led to the deterioration of the health status of the society. Even though having breakfast is time consuming, it helps us in staying energetic throughout the day. We live in a competitive world today and we have to work harder to achieve our goals and for this, a healthy and nutritious breakfast is pivotal.

APARNA.V Amalorpavam Higher Secondary School - Puducherry

I too will skip my breakfast .And before 2 months i got ulcer.But nowadays I am taking my breakfast and now i do not have ulcer

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