DO NOT SKIP BREAKFAST

Why it is called Breakfast?  Because we consume our first meal of the day, after 8-10 hours of fasting in night. It is very important meal in today’s busy routine. It provides energy and nutrients for daily routine job. Start day with some fresh fruits as this is an excellent way to cleanse the internal system. After that, one should go for proper breakfast. But it is advised to never skip your breakfast.
Breakfast is considered as a spiritual meal. Not having breakfast in the morning disturbs the doshas (vata, pitta, kapha) balance and particularly disturbs the sadhaka pitta which is responsible for the maintenance of temper in an individual. Their disturbances cause irritability.

Breakfast is an important part of Ayurvedic daily regimen (Din charya). It literally means break - the - fast. That means consuming food after 10-12 hours of gap in morning. It was even never advised to skip breakfast in earlier times also.

According to Ayurveda, breakfast is an absolute MUST if you are a Vata or a Pitta. If you are a Kapha, you may choose to have breakfast if you are hungry. Pittas eat breakfast because they get hungry and if they don't eat they get really grumpy. We don’t need to encourage pittas to eat breakfast. Vatas skip breakfast because they don't have strong appetites and they don't plan well. This is really bad for them as it adds to their lightness, their inability to focus and their inability to effectively manage immunity.

Few Benefits of having breakfast in morning are summarized below –

• Breakfast delivers essential nutrients first thing in the morning - There are certain foods which we normally consume only in breakfast like cereals, fruits and milk. If you do not consume breakfast, you may not get appropriate nutrients.
• Breakfast improves your metabolism - Since your blood sugar level drops in the morning, you need food that can provide you energy to get through the morning. Body needs fuel. To ensure your metabolism keeps you going you must eat something within 2 hours of waking up. In night, there is a gap of about 10-12 hours with the dinner of earlier day. Most of the energy is utilized in night for digestion. Without breakfast, we will be feeling lethargic and metabolism slows down. But if we consume little food (fuel for body), metabolism will be fastened.
• Breakfast helps to have healthy weight - It has been found that those who eat breakfast tend to maintain healthy weight. Sometimes people skip breakfast in the hope of losing weight they tend to eat more during lunch which leads to weight gain. Moreover, having breakfast increases the metabolic rate of the body and helps to shed off extra kilos.
• Helps to maintain insulin response - When you skip breakfast it leads to a hyper insulin response when calories are consumed later. It means the level of insulin in blood is greater than the glucose level in the blood. It leads to metabolic disorder that results in  fat accumulation.
• Helps perform better at work/school/college - Some breakfast foods can increase your productivity and give you more energy. For example - Have a good source of vitamin B in the morning as it can improve your ability to concentrate and help you think more clearly. Hungry employees and students don’t put their best at work/school. When you are hungry, you are irritated and lost interest in work which produces ill effect on your performance. Breakfast helps you to wake up and makes you attentive.
• Breakfast makes you feel fuller longer - If we don’t have breakfast, we feel hungry before noon even. And we tend to consume whatever is easily available in office /college canteen. It is the high calorie junk food we found and consume happily. But consuming breakfast help us to feel fuller and satisfied for longer time.
• Burn those calories early - If we take breakfast in time, we can burn those calories early in the day. Instead of going hungry till lunch and then loading the calories with fewer hours left in the day to burn it.  
• Skipping breakfast can make you grumpy - Not having breakfast makes you grouchy. You will not even realize it and keep wondering the reason for your irritability.