Dr. Oz Says "Skip Breakfast", What
Of Course, this is taken out of context. Read the whole thing.
Dr. Oz Says “Skip Breakfast!”
Should We?
In a videotaped interview this week with Fox News, Dr. Oz admits that doctors don’t learn much about nutrition in med school. I wondered then, how did he discover this remarkable “new” idea of skipping breakfast? He learned this dietary concept through Hugh Jackman. He's terrific, talented and one of my favorite actors, but hardly an expert on physiological nutrition.
Dr. Oz went on to claim the average person eats continually over a 17-hour day. Very few healthy people I know eat “continuously.” If consuming potato chips at 11pm is a habit, then we have a counseling problem.
I do agree that eating before bedtime is not beneficial to sleep. Sleep releases beneficial growth hormones – lack of it leads to mental deterioration, internal stress, and illness.
“I think for 2020, the first thing I’m going to do is ban breakfast,” the celebrity doctor recently told TMZ. “I don’t think we need to eat breakfast. That’s an advertising ploy.”
Well that settles it doesn’t it? If that bastion of newsworthy journalism, TMZ broadcasts it – then it must be true.
Dr. Oz goes on: “Unfortunately, a lot of the dogma that we were fed for decades came out of advertisements. It wasn’t really based on the truth around our health.”
Well, that’s true – advertisements are meant to manipulate the public into purchasing their product, but let’s break his statement down.
Never did the doctor clarify what a healthy versus unhealthy breakfast is. Eggs contain countless nutrients which I’ve written about, whole wheat French toast is better than white. There’s a huge distinction between sugary Honey Smacks with a quarter teaspoon of fiber and 5 teaspoons of sugar and Shredded Wheat with a quarter teaspoon of sugar and two teaspoons of fiber. Add a banana, berries, and cinnamon for nutritious fructose and added fiber because fiber also allows the body to rid itself of toxins through bowel movements.
Thankfully Mark Wahlberg (who wakes up at 2:30am and eats breakfast at 3:15) and Dietitian Kristin Kirkpatrick, the manager of wellness nutrition services at the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute respectfully disagreed with Dr. Oz’s finding.
In response, Dr. Oz shot Markdown, “Well, powerful medical literature and lots of athletes support me and show that intermittent fasting flips the switch so it bolsters your physical and your mental performance.”
Great, I can recruit just as many athletic directors and dietitians who would declare the opposite. But the response of “Oh yeah, did not,” “Did too,” is kind of childish isn’t it? Even if 5,000 men are wrong, they’re still wrong! (old Chinese saying.)
We are all uniquely created. I don’t eat breakfast immediately either – I like to be awake. I don’t measure portion sizes anymore – after measuring several times, usually, you’ll know how much is normal.
I DO eat for nutrients. My morning begins around 7am with two cups of coffee, creamer, cinnamon, and turmeric, an hour later, ¾ cup of quality yogurt, walnuts, berries, and milled flaxseed. About 1/2 to 1 hour later, whole grain cereal and a half banana. At lunch, I’ll have a variety: a small salad, a half sandwich, or planned leftovers from the night before. Dinner consists of 3-4 ounces of meat with 5xs more veggies. A small dessert is eaten about 2 hours later. Sometimes in the afternoon, I’ll eat a square of dark chocolate.
For my dietary advice, I will go to The Great Physician. He lovingly created us individually according to Psalm 139 and Jeremiah 1:5. In Exodus 16:21, God ordered the Israelites to gather manna every morning. Even God believed in breakfast! I’ll cast my lot with my LORD. I believe God’s smarter than any man.
I copied the above from another blog I read when I can. Everyone loses weight differently, but losing weight does have a lot to do with calories and when you eat those calories. A popular method of losing weight today is to consume all your daily calories in a small part of your overall day. In other words, some people try to restrict eating and drinking calories to 8 hours in the middle of the day and consume nothing the other sixteen hours except water. This is popular with those people who skip breakfast anyway. Others will only eat one meal a day and consume nothing except water for the other 23 hours. I have even heard that some people will eat normally 3 days a week and “fast” the other 4 days. I believe you have to experiment and do what works for you.
In reality, we all consume too many calories and don’t get enough nutrition from the foods we are eating. So how do you get enough nutrients? You eat whole foods. Fresh produce, fresh meat in small amounts, more seafood and consume all your calories in just part of your day. Don’t be a “grazer”, someone who picks on food in small quantities all day long.
Your body needs time to do other functions besides digesting food. We might think our bodies are good at “multi-tasking” but if you have too much body fat the way you’re eating has to change. You are creating your body fat because of the way you eat and the things you eat.
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