Skipping A Meal Is Bad For Your Health!

Some of us believe that we live to eat and some feel that they eat to live ! Anyway, whatever reason there may be to eat food, we all know that we need food at right times to get the energy needed to carry on our day to day work. But, when doctors tell their patients to lose weight, some feel skipping a meal will help them to lose, but does it really so? On the contrary, we tend to eat more and also eat wrong foods when we skip a meal.

When a person skips a meal, the functions of the body are reduced by a significant margin. As a matter of fact, what happens is that the person becomes quite a bit more irritable and far less rational, which is something that can be attributed to brain fog. What is the point of having more time if the energy levels are too low to make even a reasonable productive use of the time?

It can be said that the best way to stay healthy when it comes to eating habits is to just listen to what the body is saying. While this sort of advice may seem to be quite simple, or even possibly, too simple, there are advantages of following it. When meals are skipped, a person deprives him or herself of the joy of eating. Also, he or she is likely to overcompensate when the following meal is eaten by him or her. This is likely to negate any impact towards the person’s possible attempt to lose weight.
Missing meals is also linked higher type 2 diabetes and heart disease; especially when it comes to skipping breakfast. Food is to be savored, so take shorter meals as many times a day!
Uneven distribution of the calories or insufficient food intake might make a person a 'Compulsive Eater' which is the most noted eating disorder. The golden rule of the healthy dieting states 'One should control the portion size'.

The Negative Effects Of Skipping Meals

There are many reasons why people skip meals. Some may want to lose weight fast, some may be too busy at work or tied up in business meetings, not feeling hungry, have nothing to eat or arriving home late. But whatever the reason, skipping meals will have negative effects on your body. Let’s discuss.

1. Obesity and disturbed weight management

People who are weight conscious will surely go on a diet to control their weight gain, but for some who want to lose weight faster, skipping meals is their solution. As mentioned earlier, if the body goes too long without food, it will go on survival mode. The person will go out and eat whatever food they can get. It’s more likely that they will eat more than what they intended and this will eventually result in weight gain. There goes your diet.

2. Skipping meals is bad for diabetics

A normal body produces insulin and balances the glucose levels in the blood stream. People suffering from diabetes need to balance their insulin and glucose levels by eating 3 times a day at required times. Thus skipping a meal for diabetics is a bad idea. Skipping meals will ruin the body’s rhythm and can affect the glucose and insulin levels. When the glucose or insulin levels go down, a person may suffer from a diabetic stroke.

3. Spike in blood sugar

Anyone who skips a meal, specifically breakfast or lunch, will tend to eat more at the next meal. When you skip a meal, your blood sugars go down because the carbohydrates and calories are quickly burned by the body to convert it to sugar to use as fuel. When you load up on large amounts of food after the skip, there will be a spike in blood sugar levels and the body will have to work very hard to convert the food into sugar. A spike in blood sugar will either make you feel you energized, sleepy, drowsy, or it may contribute to high blood pressure.

4. Low blood sugar or Hypoglycemia

As mentioned above, low glucose and sugar levels are effects of skipping meals. A person will have low energy, headaches, nausea or may experience hypoglycemia, which can lead to dysphoria, seizures, unconsciousness or worse, brain damage or death.

 5. High blood pressure

The drop in blood sugar levels will make the body release hormones to compensate for the low glucose levels. This will result in an increase in blood pressure.

6. Headaches, dizziness and nausea

High blood pressure and hypoglycemia can cause severe migraines and headaches. Skipping meals can also result in nausea, sweating and in some cases, fainting.

7. Fatigue, depression and low performance levels

If you’re feeling hungry because you’ve skipped a meal, you may experience temporary depression, fatigue and low energy. Your body needs fuel to function properly. Your body is just like a car that needs gasoline to run, but if you skipped the nearest gas station, your car will surely run out of gas. If your body runs out of fuel, it will not function properly.

8. Bad hunger breath

When a person skips meals a chemical reaction, ketoacidosis, starts to happen. The body begins to break down these chemicals and an unpleasant odor begins to brew. An empty stomach reduces the production of saliva. We know that saliva helps in flushing away mouth bacteria, if there is less saliva production, bacteria will multiply and will cause bad breath.

9. Stomach ulcer, gastritis, acid reflux and stomach pain

The stomach will continue to produce digestive juices even if you skip a meal. Having no food for long periods will result in stomach acid, gastritis and acid reflux. Too much stomach acid will erode the stomach lining which can lead to severe ulcers or worse, cancer.

10. Heartburn

Binge eating on fatty and greasy foods late at night will trigger a heartburn. If you have skipped breakfast and lunch, this will surely happen to you. Because you are so hungry the whole day, you will eat everything that you think will satisfy your hunger. Stuffing your stomach with large amounts of food in a short time will stretch it. This stretching will put pressure on the stomach’s muscle ring and will make stomach juices go up to your throat and will cause heartburn.

In conclusion, it has been proven that consuming enough calories and spreading them out during the day is better than not eating enough or skipping meals. Plus, getting calories on time will prevent energy loss and low mental state all throughout the day. Be sure to eat all meals throughout the day, even if they aren’t huge meals. You should eat just enough to make you full, get your metabolism going and keep you energized every day.

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