NEVER SKIP BREAKFAST- Good breakfast can prevent potential heart attacks

Seems to be a good one for those of us who rush in the mornings to office since we get up late/browse paper in wash room and invariably end up skipping the breakfast. Let's also kick this habit and start with a healthy BF


Breakfast can help prevent strokes, heart attack and sudden death.
Advice on not to skip breakfast!
Tips for healthy living...
For those who always skip breakfast, you should start kicking that habit
now!!

You've heard many times that "Breakfast is the most important meal of
the day." Now, recent research confirms that one of the worst practices you
can develop may be avoiding breakfast.
Why?
Because the frequency of heart attacks, sudden death, and stroke peaks
between 6:00 a.m. and noon, with the highest incidence being between
8:00a.m. and 10:00am. What mechanism within the body could account for
this significant jump in sudden death in the early morning hours?
We may have an answer.
Platelet, tiny elements in the blood that keep us from bleeding to Death
if we get a cut, can clump together inside our arteries due to cholesterol
or plaque build up in the artery lining. It is in the morning hours
that platelets become the most activated and tend to form these
internal blood clots at the greatest frequency.
However, eating even a very light breakfast prevents the morning
platelet activation that is associated with heart attacks and strokes.
Studies performed at MemorialUniversityin St.Johns, Newfoundlandfound
that eating a light, very low-fat breakfast was critical in modifying
the morning platelet activation. Subjects in the study consumed either
low-fat or fat-free yogurt, orange juice, fruit, and a source of protein coming
from yogurt or fat-free milk.
So if you skip breakfast, it's important that you change this practice
immediately in light of this research. Develop a simple plan to eat
cereal, such as oatmeal or Bran Flakes, along with six ounces of grape juice or
orange juice, and perhaps a piece of fruit.
This simple plan will keep your platelets from sticking together, keep
blood clots from forming, and perhaps head off a potential heart attack
or stroke.
So never ever skip breakfast

RK