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Skip breakfast for a healthier brain
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From The Times
London, UK
1 April, 2017
Skip breakfast for a healthier brain
Breakfast is the most dangerous meal of the day and inflicting it on children can be tantamount to abuse, a biochemistry professor has claimed.
Terence Kealey, former vice-chancellor at the University of Buckingham, said that breakfasts increased blood glucose levels, which were already high first thing in the morning. This was hazardous for diabetics, he said, adding that eating early in the morning only encouraged people to consume more throughout the day.
Professor Kealey told the Oxford Literary Festival that the scientific community had “fooled itself” over the benefits of breakfast, adding that almost every study on the meal had been funded by the cereals manufacturers Kellogg’s or General Mills.
Public Health England warned this year that primary school children were consuming almost three teaspoons of sugar, half their recommended daily intake, in the mornings.
Professor Kealey said that eschewing these sugary foods would be healthier and that eating in the middle of the day was more beneficial to brain function.
“You can do an experiment that shows that not only does breakfast not make you learn but that we come to better decisions if we don’t have breakfast,” he said. “Making decisions on an empty stomach seems to be very good for the brain, paradoxically.”
Professor Kealey, whose book, Breakfast is a Dangerous Meal, outlines his theories in clinical biochemistry, added: “I would let the kids decide for themselves if they want breakfast. Lots of kids don’t want to eat breakfast. If you’re worried give them an apple, but the idea that you should give them breakfast is a form of child abuse.”
The professor, who was given a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes in 2010 and noticed that his own glucose levels would surge after eating an early breakfast, said that advice about the condition was often “terrible”. He said that, contrary to official advice, diabetics should drink alcohol.
“I was told [as a diabetic] that it was very important to eat breakfast. What I discovered was that breakfast was an extremely dangerous meal, alcohol was extraordinarily good for my blood sugar levels, and eating frequently is a disaster for everyone but also diabetics.
“Alcohol lowers blood glucose levels. What do type 2 diabetics need? To lower their blood glucose levels. Actually we should all be trying to lower blood glucose levels. One of the ways that alcohol benefits society is to lower blood glucose levels,” he added.
“Beer, which is full of starch is not such a good thing, but a nice glass of Sancerre is just the ticket.”
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