What you eat, everything from your meals to snacks, can have a huge effect on how your day goes. Here are some tips from Men’s Health Magazine to eat and sip your way to a successful day!
Breakfast
Eat This: Bacon or ham and fried eggs (Protein that will leave you feeling satisfied)
Benefit 1: Fullness and energy
Benefit 2: Relaxed blood vessel (i.e. lower blood pressure)
Not That: Pancakes, or a bagel with cream cheese
These carbohydrate-loaded options will send your blood glucose skyward and then crash! Leaving you hungry too soon.
Extra tip: Eat now at home, not later on the road.
A University of Massachusetts study found that eating breakfast out instead of at home more than doubles your odds of obesity.
Dealing with Stress:
Try This: Chewing gum
Benefit: Stress relief
Not That: Coffee
Caffeine can trigger a spike in the stress hormone cortisol.
Having Trouble Concentrating at Work
Drink This: Peppermint tea
Periodic whiffs of peppermint increase people’s concentration and performance on tasks requiring sustained attention.
Not That: Soda
Sugary drinks have proven to make people drowsy
Lunchtime
Eat This: Grilled salmon
Benefit: Alertness
Add This: Spinach or arugula salad
Benefit: Improved mood and memory
Not That: Tea with milk (Mixing milk (protein) with tea cancels out the health benefits)
Continue to complete your perfect day of eating menu.
Skipping meals is no way to lose weight! The best way to start every day is with a healthy and filling breakfast. Recent research shows that a morning meal that’s 400 to 500 calories helps you feel full and may make it easier to stick to your diet.
Here are five quick and easy breakfast recipes that’ll bust any excuse for missing your morning meal.
Chef, food stylist and writer Jennifer McLagan has written a book called, “Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, With Recipes.” Her basic belief is that since people have started to become obsessed with eating less fat, we have become fatter and less healthy. Check out this interview with the author to get all her ideas in her own words, plus a recipe for bacon mayonnaise (just to hammer her idea home).
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