“Breakfast” the word itself helps us understand what it stands for .It is breaking the fast of 7 – 8 hrs after your night sleep. Breakfast is the first thing one has in the morning and breaks the night long fast. Therefore breakfast is one meal that one should never skip.

Your body is the vehicle of all your deeds. For your body to have any chance of keeping up with schedules, it is very important to supply it with some energy. And it has to be in a good condition for whatever you want to do – working, talking or thinking. Hence we should fuel our body in the morning by eating a good healthy breakfast.

Breakfast provides 25% of the total energy and nutrients required by the body. According to the food and nutrition experts at the American Dietetic Association, eating breakfast not only aids in weight management but also fuels the body to help provide energy, better concentration and problem-solving ability throughout the day. Breakfast boosts our brain-power, keeps us slim and lifts our mood. Eating the largest meal in the morning and decreasing food intake throughout the day is definitely good for your overall health.

Breakfast Suggestions
An ideal breakfast contains a perfect combination of carbohydrates, protein and fibre. You can include light and soft idlis with sambhar or plain dosas with green chutney, milk with cornflakes/wheatflakes, vegetable poha, upma or pancakes with a milkshake in the breakfast. Sprouts, two brown bread toast with a glass of coconut water or vegetable omelet with a bran muffin and orange juice make an ideal low fat breakfast.
Some people prefer to have parathas in the morning. I would suggest them to add some leafy veggies in their rotis to increase its nutritive value. One can stuff mix veggies or greens like fenugreek leaves, mint or spinach in the parathas and have it with curds.

Even when you are in a hurry, eat something, be it a piece of fruit or a whole wheat bread sandwich to munch while you run out the door to catch your bus. Try to make your breakfast the night before. Put oatmeal into a thermos of hot water or milk, and let it sit overnight. In the morning you shall have hot cooked oatmeal ready to eat. Similarly a hard boiled egg can be made available in the morning. This will prevent your body from going into starvation mode and decreasing its metabolism, which will result in the body being unable to expend energy. Or if you are trying to lose weight, your body would be unable to burn fat.
Grab healthy foods such as a fruit that is high in fiber like apple, watermelon, orange, sweet lime and papaya. Instead of tea, coffee or cola which is most frequently had with a breakfast, it can be replaced by fresh fruit juice, coconut water, buttermilk , milkshake or even a plain glass of milk. As the whole idea is to eat healthy and get energy rather than put on an additional flab.