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Claims about diets abound all around you. Web, social networks, television, press…, communication seizes the theme and deploys a plethora of means to guarantee you a healthy and varied diet. Advertising on the subject is and remains omnipresent. At the heart of this media buzz, breakfast, worthy of a king, often takes its place at the top of the podium.

As the belief goes, this meal is the basis of a good health and a balanced life. How, overwhelmed by tons of claims, can you distinguish the truth from the lie? Is breakfast really the key to a dream figure?

Breakfast, to have a real influence on your body and the course of your day, must be copious. This is what many advisors and diet specialists of all kinds say. Bigger than smaller, therefore, the morning meal has encouraging benefits in the search for weight loss. With much more energy stored when waking up and a whole day to burn the first accumulated calories, the calculation is quickly done. It would be better to let yourself go during this meal so as not to have to compensate for an energy void later.

If, apparently, the thinnest people are those who don't skip breakfast, it has never been proven that eating in the morning (when waking up) is a guarantee of weight loss. Take people who are overweight and who therefore move less. Unlike lovers of rich breakfasts who eat smaller quantities during the rest of the day and have a more active lifestyle thanks to their physical condition, part of the overweight population will not be able to evacuate calories in the same way. "They continue to eat as copiously during the day, and the calories from breakfast simply add to the rest," indicates Le Vif in its Bodytalk magazine. Consequence: the risk of additional weight gain increases.

It's important to remember that these assumptions, specific to a special diet menu, are often erroneous or biased. Everyone eats differently and has a very different, if not opposite, relationship with food. Your body doesn't work in the same way as your neighbor's. If breakfast integrates habits and a healthy lifestyle, this certainly doesn't mean that it will be the miracle cure for keeping in shape. The main thing lies in your ability to take a step back from all this nutritional advice and to try to evaluate what can and should be changed.

Of course, it's important, in order to control your weight, to choose quality foods, not processed by the industry, keep it simple and if possible varied. Changing your outlook on food and keeping an open mind, these are the guidelines to your nutritional balance and by extension to part of your physical health.

(MH with AsD - Source: Le Vif Bodytalk - Illustration: Pixabay - Pexels)