The British Daily Mail revealed that if you want to lose weight, you should “breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.” Michael Mosley, a famous British nutrition consultant, says that by doing so, you will burn more calories and improve your metabolic health. Keeping blood sugar and blood cholesterol levels in a healthy range“.
Why should you have a big breakfast and a small dinner?
Eating the largest meal of the day is important – especially if you want to lose weight, says Dr. Michael Mosley, that fits better with our bodies’ natural circadian rhythms, which are driven in large part by our internal body clocks.
Researchers from the University of Aberdeen recruited 30 healthy, overweight men and women and asked them to follow a diet in which they spend 4 weeks eating the most calories in the morning or evening, then switch.
The meals served by the scientists were high in protein and relatively low in carbohydrates. 30% of the calories came from protein, 35% from carbohydrates, and 35% from fat..
Since they were on a tightly controlled high-protein diet, the volunteers lost an adequate amount of 3.3kg, because eating more protein makes you feel fuller by reducing levels of the hunger hormone ghrelin.
In other words, he added, you need food first thing to fuel you up during the morning, and you don’t want to fill your stomach at night when your body is getting ready for sleep..
The only real difference was that when they ate a large breakfast, they felt less hungry during the day than when they ate a large dinner..
Women who ate more food at night noticed higher levels of fat in their blood throughout the day, despite losing weight, which is clearly a bad thing, the paper said..
The newspaper pointed out that eating fatty and sugary foods in the morning and going for a quick walk helps burn some of those calories, which did not happen in the evening, but the case is different when we eat late at night, our body is not able to secrete the hormone insulin, Insulin’s job is to help your cells absorb glucose, so eating late at night puts you at risk for type 2 diabetes..
What I have learned from all this is that the old saying Breakfast is like a king, Lunch like a Prince, Dinner like a pauper still holds and that being mindful of what you eat, as well as what you eat, can play an important role in improving your health.
The best way to maintain weight is, Moseley said Eat a protein-rich breakfast (Includes scrambled eggs and smoked salmon) Avoid eating too much late at night.