Breakfast Is a Dangerous Meal

De: Terence Kealey

Narrado por: Gordon Griffin

Duración: 9 h y 13 m

Resumen del Editor

Breakfast may be the most important meal of the day, but only if we skip it.

Fasting is a wonderfully healthy state. When we fast, our insulin levels fall, as do our blood sugar, triglyceride and cholesterol levels. Most usefully, when we fast we lose weight. But what do too many of us do on waking?

We break that lovely gift of fasting - we literally breakfast - and we eat, so courting type 2 diabetes, obesity, heart disease, strokes, hypertension, dementia and cancers of the liver, breast, pancreas and uterus. We are told today that breakfast is the most important meal of the day and that we should eat it like a king.

In the wake of his own type 2 diabetes diagnosis, Professor Terence Kealey was given the same advice. But Professor Kealey noticed that his glucose levels were unusually high after eating first thing in the morning, whereas if he continued to fast until lunchtime they fell to a normal rate. He began to wonder how much evidence there was to support the advice he'd been given - and whether there might be an advantage to not eating breakfast after all.

Breakfast Is a Dangerous Meal asks:

• Where is the current scientific and medical evidence to support the importance of eating breakfast?
• Should we be investigating the possibility that breakfast may be doing us more harm than good?
• And what about nondiabetics: should they also skip breakfast?

Breakfast Is a Dangerous Meal will provide authoritative, welcome advice for anyone who is diabetic or prediabetic and indeed anyone who has considered skipping 'the most important meal of the day'.

©2016 Terence Kealey (P)2016 HarperCollins Publishers

Well researched

The book is very readable, well researched and overall very enjoyable. Author looks at the topic from broad perspective and every angle and builds on many research.
As for the core message. I feel more and more people start to see how many lies we were fed and there is no shortage of lies in the field of nutrition.

Sadly the book is written a biased doctor

Whether breakfast is a dangerous meal or not is impossible to say after reading this book. The author is sadly biased as to the "wonders" if a low carbohydrate diet. Halfway through the book he has managed to parade myth after myth about the glory of fat in the diet. E. G. The Masai have nearly no heart disease. (They do. ) Ansel Keys was wrong. (He wasn't) Sugar consumption has increased. (It's been steadily decreasing the last 20 years). and so on.

See this short video if you want documentation:
https://youtu.be/qpnhFbp7J7E