Strawberries and Yogurt: A Light Breakfast
Nutritionists stress that a healthy breakfast is essential for starting off the day on the right foot. Eating breakfast raises glucose levels, which are lowered during the night, due to a lack of food. Breakfast also provides the energy that we need for our daily activities.
For weight loss, having breakfast will prevent dieters from overeating later on in the day. However, you need to learn how to choose and mix your breakfast foods, not only because they’ll keep you in shape, but they’ll also help you start your days in a good mood.
Which foods should you eat at breakfast?
There are all kinds of breakfast options: cereals, yogurts, fruits, bread, eggs, etc. However, some food types are better than others.
For a long time, people thought that a healthy breakfast needed to include carbohydrates. More recently, we’ve discovered that foods rich in proteins, healthy fats and fiber (in addition to foods that don’t contain sugar or refined carbohydrates) make the best options.
Breakfast should also be easy to digest, meaning that it should include simple foods that don’t provoke the stomach to produce too much acid. On a further note, breakfasts have to be fast and easy to prepare, as being in a hurry is one of the main reasons why people skip breakfast.
This makes strawberries and yogurt the perfect choice for the morning. Yogurt provides a good amount of proteins and keeps you feeling full, while strawberries offer your body vitamins, minerals, fibers, and antioxidants. They make for a delicious combination, that’s light and very nutritious.
Yogurt: the perfect breakfast
Yogurt is a wonderful source of high biological value proteins, which means quality proteins for your body. These proteins play a key role, participating in muscle development and maintenance.
These nutrients, unlike lipids and carbohydrates, don’t turn into fat. Instead, the body eliminates them after using them.
The live cultures found in yogurt help to improve gut flora and, as a result, aid digestion. On top of that, it’s a food source that’s rich in calcium, phosphate and magnesium, which are all minerals that the body needs for a healthy skeletal system.
Our bodies absorb the foods first consumed at the beginning of the day, more efficiently. That means that all of the yogurt’s properties will have a stronger impact because it’s consumed at breakfast time.
For those who are looking to lose weight, yogurt is an excellent breakfast option, also because it helps keep dieters full, preventing them from consuming more calories than they need throughout the day. However, to stay trim, dieters should look for non-fat and sugar-free yogurts.
Advantages of strawberries
Strawberries are delicious and colorful, often being a favorite for children. Nutritionally speaking, they’re also beneficial as they hardly contain any calories or fat, yet they contain lots of fiber to aid in digestion. They also are packed with vitamin C to strengthen the immune system. What’s more is that they’re packed with antioxidants and folic acid.
Another advantage that strawberries have for health is their omega-3 content; omega-3 can help the body control cholesterol. Strawberries are also a good source of salicylic acid, making them a natural anti-inflammatory and coagulant.
Eating any fruit is a great way to start the day, but strawberries are especially low in sugar (more than most fruits), making them ideal for staying in shape.
Adding strawberries to your breakfast will have incredible benefits for your body, especially if you’re trying to lose or maintain your weight. Eaten with yogurt, strawberries make for a light, delicious, complete and very nutritious breakfast.
