What time should I eat breakfast?

I wake up at different times so my breakfast time is not fixed. So what is the best time to have breakfast? (Tien, 34 years old, Hanoi ).

Reply:

Everyone should form the habit of eating breakfast at a fixed time to create a conditioned reflex for the body. Eating breakfast before 8am or 30-60 minutes after waking up is best. Eating breakfast regularly will help you control your lunch and dinner portions, while keeping your blood sugar levels balanced.

Everyone has different choices for breakfast, depending on their preferences, weight, age, and ability to pay. The essence of breakfast is to provide energy for the body, any dish that provides reasonable and balanced calories is very good.

A dish that provides about 300-500 kcal is reasonable. People should change the menu, avoid eating the same dish continuously, causing boredom.

For children and the elderly, breakfast should consist of soft, easily digestible foods. For people with underlying diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and cancer, a specific, appropriate diet is needed.

Note, many people have the habit of eating breakfast with noodles, pho, sticky rice, bread but lack green vegetables, so you need to consider adding vegetables to your dishes to diversify nutrition, enough 4 groups of substances, including starch, protein, fat, vitamins and minerals.

A suggestion for breakfast is an egg sandwich, or sliced bread combined with fried eggs. The starch group from bread combined with protein, fat in eggs and frying oil, vitamins and minerals from herbs such as papaya, tomatoes, cucumbers, and coriander, helps make a full, varied, and balanced breakfast.

Dr. Nguyen Trong Hung
National Institute of Nutrition

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