Is Breakfast Really So Important?

供稿：涂淑梅

你會每天吃早餐嗎？你可能知道吃早餐很重要，但閱讀本文，或許你會有新的啟發。

Have you ever heard someone say,“Breakfast is the most important meal of the day”,or tell you about why it’s vital to start the day with a healthy breakfast?

It seems that this feast,for many of us,is necessary for our day to start well,but is it really that important?

The word“breakfast”comes from“breaking the fast”——the idea of ending the period in which we didn’t eat during the night.The1)regenerationprocess that takes place while we sleep consumes some of our natural food2)reservesto3)healour bodies.

Breakfast gives us an opportunity to4)replenishthose5)depletedstores of things like protein and calcium.So,in that way,a healthy breakfast makes sense.

In a US study,50,000 people were6)monitoredover seven years,and those who ate a healthy breakfast were found to have a lower Body Mass Index(BMI),which seems to suggest that breakfast may indeed help people maintain a healthy weight.

1) reɡeneration [r??d?en??re??n] n.新生；更新

2) reserve [r??z??v] n.儲備；儲存

3) heal [hi?l] v.治愈；撫平；恢復

4) replenish [r??plen??] v.補充，再裝滿

5) deplete [d??pli?t?] v.耗盡，用盡

6) monitor [?m?n?t?(r)] v.監視；監督；監測

But it might not be as simple as that.

Some experts,like Alexandra Johnstone,professor of appetite research at the University of Aberdeen,suggest those who skip breakfast might be less aware of healthy diets and nutrition,and people who eat breakfast might have a healthier lifestyle overall——exercising and not smoking,for example.

你是否聽別人說過“早餐是一天中最重要的一餐”，或者告訴你為什么健康的早餐對開始一天的生活如此重要？

對我們許多人來說，這頓早餐盛宴似乎是我們開啟新的一天的必要條件，但早餐真的那么重要嗎？

“早餐”這個詞來自“打破禁食”，即結束我們在夜間沒有進食的時期。當我們睡覺時，身體會消耗我們一天的儲備食物以保證身體正常運轉。

早餐讓我們有機會補充這些耗盡的蛋白質和鈣。因此，從這個角度來看，健康的早餐是有意義的。

在美國的一項研究中，對5 萬人進行了長達7 年的監測，發現那些吃健康早餐的人的體重指數較低，這似乎表明早餐確實可能幫助人們保持健康體重。

但其本身可能沒有那么簡單。

一些專家，如阿伯丁大學食欲研究教授亞歷山德拉·約翰斯通認為，那些不吃早餐的人可能不太了解健康飲食和營養，而吃早餐的人總體上可能有更健康的生活方式，比如鍛煉和不吸煙。