Weight Loss Helpers

Studies for examining food habits have shown that breakfast, eaten regularly, has a series of benefits for your body:

- It reduces the risk of obesity and high cholesterol
- It reduces the resistance to insulin (a condition that could increase the risk for diabetic and hearts diseases
- Minimizes the desire to eat snacks between meals or to eat more throughout the day
- Improves performances as far as memory tasks
- Helps with the assimilation of nutrients that are seldom provided by other meals of the day
-It increases learning performances, for the children, and professional ones, for adults.

Thought, as it may seem, skipping breakfast means avoiding a number of calorie, statistics suggest otherwise. An American study shows that approximately 90% of 3000 adults that lost 15 kilos and maintained the weight for a period greater than 1 year, have said that they eat breakfast almost every day of the week.

Seeds, fruits, vegetables, beans and nuts are some of the most important fiber sources. Food with a high percentage of fibers has the great advantage of minimizing the need for a snack before lunch, creating the sensation of being “full”. Also, if you add proteins to your menu like sea fruits, fat free dairy, chicken or eggs, you’ll have a great “tool” for fighting your hunger between meals.

Fruits combined with low fat cheese are always very suitable - for example, you can pack a sandwich with cheese cream and sliced peaches.

- A fat free yogurt or fat free milk with cereals, with dry fruits and nuts, is always a good alternative for a healthy and tasty breakfast.

- Try biscuits combined with grapes or mix porridge wit dry fruits, nuts and cinnamon.

- A slice of cereals bread with butter, consumed with fruits or fat free milk or, better yet, soy milk, represents another healthy choice. You can always replace milk with freshly squeezed juice.

- You can choose from a variety of biscuits, crackers that you can combine with other goodies like: salmon and cheese cream, canned fish (preferably salmon), with spices and flavored herbs, hummus with carrots or grapes, chicken with light mayonnaise, beans with salad, tomatoes, fat free feta cheese and nuts, eggs with salsa dressing, etc.

- Vegetables with a boiled egg and a light dressing

- Vegetables burgers with cereals bread and salad, favorites spices and carrots.