What will happen if you skip your breakfast?

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. However, many people do not have healthy breakfast habits. Their common reasons to skip breakfast are they do not have time to eat, are not hungry and so on. But what they do not know is that skipping breakfast can lead to long-term health effects.

Trigger migraines

Our blood sugar levels are usually low in the morning as we fasted for a long time the night before. Skipping breakfast triggers the release of hormones to compensate for the low sugar levels. This will increase blood pressure levels rapidly and trigger migraines and headaches.

Negatively impact cognitive function

Breakfast helps to boost our brainpower and keep us energetic throughout the day. If we skip breakfast, our brain will not get sufficient nutrients, thus affecting our concentration, thinking and decision-making skills.

Lead to hair loss

A healthy breakfast full of protein can maintain our hair healthy and strong. However, when we skip breakfast, our hair will lose nutrients and become weak and thin. Weakened hair leads to hair loss.

Gain weight

Skipping breakfast will lead to an increase in hungry signals at noon. When hunger strikes, we overeat at lunch and do not take notes on the calories we consume. Thus, energy intake exceeds expenditure, and we gain weight.

Get gastric problems

People who always skip their breakfast are more likely to have gastric problems such as acidity, ulcers, and abdominal pain. This is because even though they do not eat breakfast, their stomach will still produce stomach acid, and this acid will get accumulated in the stomach and attack their stomach lining.