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Breakfast can help prevent strokes, heart attack and sudden death. Advice on not
to skip breakfast!
Healthy living
For those who always skip breakfast, you should stop that habit now! You've
heard many times that "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day." Now,
recent research confirms that one of the worst practices you can develop may be
avoiding breakfast.
Why?
Because the frequency of heart attack, sudden death, and stroke peaks between 6:
00a.m. and noon, with the highest incidence being between 8: 00a.m. and
10:00a.m.What mechanism within the body could account for this significant jump
in sudden death in the early morning hours?
We may have an Answer.
Platelet, tiny elements in the blood that keep us from bleeding to Death if we
get a cut, can clump together inside our arteries due to cholesterol or laque
buildup in the artery lining. It is in the morning hours that platelets become
the most activated and tend to form these internal blood clots at the greatest
frequency.
However, eating even a very light breakfast prevents the morning platelet
activation that is associated with heart attacks and strokes. Studies performed
at Memorial University in St.Johns, Newfoundland found that eating a light,
very low-fat breakfast was critical in modifying the morning platelet
activation. Subjects in the study consumed either low-fat or fat-free yogurt,
orange juice, fruit, and a source of protein coming from yogurt or fat-free
milk. So if you skip breakfast, it's important that you change this practice
immediately in light of this research. Develop a simple plan to eat cereal, such
as oatmeal or Bran Flakes, along with six ounces of grape juice or orange juice,
and perhaps a piece of fruit. This simple plan will keep your platelets from
sticking together, keep blood clots from forming, and perhaps head off a
potential Heart Attack or stroke. So never ever skip breakfast
