Breakfast: an important meal, yes or no?

We often hear that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so much so that those who make it blame those who don’t, and if those who don’t are overweight, the fact that they don’t eat breakfast is considered a bad habit to correct. . For example, I support breakfast, personally and in general terms, for a few reasons: first of all, hormonal; since insulin is low on waking, cortisol is high and metabolism is low.
Consequently, especially for those who are easily prone to stress, starting the day with a breakfast allows us to increase insulin levels (without eating only carbohydrates or having a breakfast rich in carbohydrates) and counteract the action of cortisol. The increase in cortisol occurs within twenty minutes to thirty minutes of waking up, and it is precisely within half an hour of waking up that you should theoretically have breakfast

Secondly, it is no coincidence that nervous hunger affects people who skip breakfast more than those who eat an adequate, and by adequate, I mean balanced breakfast. A sign that perhaps nervous hunger is not a mechanism that is triggered only for psychological reasons, but also for hormonal reasons. And, strange to say, it strikes more in the afternoon, when the metabolism is higher and the hunger pangs become more intense. In short, these are my reasons why I prefer to have breakfast, but mainly because I like breakfast and I find it very stressful not to have it.
All the things I have explained above are not invented by me, and you can find them in the explanation on the importance of breakfast by Dr. John L. Ivy, of the University of Texas., who had conducted a study on Nutrient Timing in sport in 2004.
But since this blog is not born with the pretense of pulling water to my mill , I will try to give you more objective answers, based on the studies of recent years regarding breakfast and cataloging them as breakfast yes / breakfast no.
Let’s see first why anyone who wants can happily skip breakfast and don’t care about the cliché. On page two.