Trying to figure out a breakfast that is both enjoyable and nutritious can be difficult and it can be hard knowing if you're eating the right thing. Thankfully, TV's Dr Michael Mosley has shared a simple test that can tell you whether or not your breakfast is right for you.
The founder of the popular 5:2 and Fast 800 diet discussed his healthy eating tips with food expert Professor Tim Spector, an epidemiologist who heads up the Zoe health study, in a recent episode of his Just One Thing podcast. Dr Mosley asked Professor Spector for his advice on how people can maximise their health and well-being and how to decide what to eat for their first meal of the day.
Given that 'everyone is different' and that what works for one person may not be effective for another, the epidemiologist advised people to experiment with their breakfast selections in order to determine if it is providing them with the nutrients they require. Dr Mosley agreed with this and shared a simple test to determine whether the first meal you eat in a day is right for you - and it all depends on how soon you get hungry after eating.
He explained: "The way I judge it now is - do I get crazy hungry at about 11 o'clock or don't I? If I get crazy hungry that suggests whatever I have had a couple of hours earlier isn't that great," he said. The pair delved into greater details about their breakfast habits, with Professor Spector speaking from personal experience.
The expert told how he'd spent years consuming what he believed to be a healthy breakfast of tea, juice, and muesli, but one day decided to drastically modify his diet. This is because he realised that his high-carb, high-sugar breakfast was making his blood sugar jump and had contributed to a weight increase of about 10 kilos. "When I was a healthy doctor, an epidemiologist, [breakfast] would have been muesli, a cup of tea with low-fat milk in it, and a glass of orange juice. I'd sometimes have toast and marmalade. It would always be brown toast, but I didn't know at that time that they are often dyed brown," he said on the podcast.
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"I was eating towards what I was told at the time, as a doctor, was a healthy diet. It turns out that diet had led to me gaining about a kilo of weight over the previous 10 years so I'd gained about 10 kilos over that time. It was only when I stuck a glucose monitor on me as I was eating my breakfast and it shot up into the normal diabetic range - it was a worrying sign that really these carbs and sugars weren't right for me."
He went on to share that although his wife would eat the exact same meal as him for breakfast, it wouldn't have the same negative impact on her. Professor Spector claimed that switching to a 'high-fat' breakfast made a 'radical difference' as it made him feel less hungry later on in the day.
"I instantly saw that changing brought down my sugars. I wasn't getting sugar spikes. I also didn't feel nearly as hungry at 11, 10 o'clock at work. I didn't feel I needed a mid-morning biccy as I used to and I was just feeling generally better. It may not work for you but until you try it you don't know," he said. Dr Mosley added that he had had a similar experience after realising the breakfast he'd been eating wasn't working for him either, so he switched to a meal of omelette with vegetables.
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