Muscle atrophy from not eating breakfast

The habit of skipping breakfast can be dangerous to health such as low blood pressure, muscle atrophy, and even stomach ulcers.

Le Thi My (26 years old, Quang Ninh) has a habit of skipping breakfast because she often wakes up late, so she has too much time to prepare for work. Moreover, she is on a weight loss regimen so she does not dare to eat much. Over time, she feels weak, especially in the morning, and is lethargic, making it difficult to concentrate on work.

One time when she went to donate blood, she had a general check-up and found out that her blood pressure was abnormally low. The doctor suggested that she eat breakfast immediately if she did not want to faint. At that moment, My realized the importance of eating breakfast.

Trang (25 years old in Hanoi) has a deeper experience when advising everyone to absolutely not skip breakfast. According to this girl, the habit of skipping breakfast once caused her left arm muscles to cramp, unable to stretch, and pain running from her biceps to her fingertips.

Many people suffer from low blood pressure and even fainting because they do not eat breakfast. Photo: Medicalnewstoday.

The dangers of not eating breakfast

Doctor CKII Trinh Quang Dung - Head of Rehabilitation Department - National Children's Hospital said that every day, the body needs a certain amount of energy and nutrition to nourish the internal organs and maintain body activities.

Muscles can maintain their activity thanks to nutrition. People who work with their hands or brains need to use their muscles. Therefore, if they do not have enough energy, it is inevitable that their muscles will weaken or even atrophy.

According to the doctor, in Trang's case, the main cause is not eating breakfast, the body lacks energy while the muscles still have to work. In particular, the morning is when the muscles have to work the hardest. This prolonged condition can cause cramps, muscle atrophy, and muscle pain. Therefore, we need to provide adequate energy to avoid unnecessary accidents.

Doctor Cao Thi Thanh Huong - Deputy Director of the Center for Applied Inheritance of the Hanoi Oriental Medicine Association - also said that skipping breakfast is an unhealthy habit.

In fact, the most common consequence of this mistake is hypoglycemia, hypotension with symptoms such as dizziness, headache, weak limbs, even fainting. Especially in hot weather, the body is not provided with enough energy right from breakfast, which is very dangerous, creating more opportunities for heatstroke and heat shock.

In addition, if you skip breakfast for a long time, it can also cause you to get stomach ulcers. At this time, the stomach still contracts, gastric juice is secreted but there is no food to digest, which will gradually lead to ulcers.

Does breakfast cause weight gain or help weight loss?

Regarding the information that eating breakfast can cause weight gain and obesity, experts say that this is a mistake of many women. In fact, eating breakfast also has the effect of losing weight.

Skipping breakfast can cause women to overeat at lunch and dinner while not being active in the afternoon and evening, the food will not be digested in time, causing the body's heat to increase day by day, the amount of fat accumulated will increase, leading to weight gain, even obesity.

Meanwhile, with breakfast, when we eat, the body will undergo metabolism, this is also the time when the body begins to consume calories. After breakfast, the calorie consumption process is strongest, so there is no way that eating breakfast will make us gain weight.

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