This article comes from the stern archive and was first published on April 24, 2019.
The saying that breakfast is the most important meal of the day is already outdated. New studies have proven that regular fasting, known in technical terms as interval fasting or intermittent fasting, can have a positive impact on our bodies. As the name suggests, intermittent fasting is not about starving for days, but about abstaining from food for a few hours. For example, you skip a meal – breakfast, lunch or dinner, resulting in a fasting period of 16 to 18 or six to eight hours.
But if you eat in the morning, special rules apply. Of course breakfast is an important meal, but it depends on what you eat. Sugary foods, for example, could ruin your entire day. If you constantly fall into a midday slump, don’t even wake up after your third coffee or are hungry again at 11 a.m., you should follow these ten rules and avoid these foods for breakfast:
- Stay away from mueslis or cornflakes, which contain hardly any fiber and too much sugar.
- Reduced-fat yogurts sound good, but instead of fat, they are packed with sweeteners and additives. Therefore: Don’t eat!
- Smoothies from the supermarket are convenient to buy, but the main reason they taste bad is their high sugar content.
- Bagels for breakfast are not a good idea. In terms of the amount of carbohydrates, they correspond to four slices of white bread.
- Pancakes with maple syrup? No!
- Many people think that granola bars are healthy. But they aren’t, because their sugar content is very high.
- Breakfast juice: sounds good, tastes good too, but contains just as much sugar as cola or lemonade.
- You should stay away from granola just as you should from mueslis. Here too, the culprit is: sugar!
- It’s not a good idea to get a breakfast sandwich from a fast food chain: it’s an industrially processed food with additives and hardly any fiber. After a short while you are hungry again.
- French rolls, croissants and other Danish pastries sound more than tempting for breakfast. But the fact is: they contain too much sugar and make you hungry again after a short time.
You can see which foods you should avoid in the following pictures.
From February 18th to March 24th, presenter Dieter Könnes invites viewers of “stern TV am Sonntag” to work together to reduce sugar consumption in just five weeks under the motto “Simply Sugar Free”. They receive prominent support from actress Tina Ruland, who, together with two other colleagues, dares to quit sugar cold. “stern TV am Sonntag” runs on February 18th at 11 p.m. on RTL and parallel on RTL+.
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