Let's talk about breakfast, and is that as important as we've always been told?

- Yeah, you're right.

So you've heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

That's probably not true.

That's probably not a thing that you have to have breakfast or especially that it's not the most important meal of the day.

But practically, yeah, we want your kids to be fueled well for school.

Okay?

So that means having a nice, diverse breakfast that includes lots of protein and things like that.

So yeah, every family does this differently, and you have to do what's best for your family.

If my kids were, if my family was trying to make sausage and eggs and pancakes and crazy things like that for breakfast every morning, it would be a lot of strain on our family dynamics.

So we can't do that, right?

So we do rely on some of these prepackaged things, or what we're doing is we're trying to prep the night before for those things.

Those are really good, but if you're gonna focus on something, focus on protein.

Protein is your friend, okay?

Those things that are really higher in the carbs and the sugars and stuff like that, your body's gonna burn through them, and then a couple hours later, you are going to feel a little bit of that blood sugar kind of a drop, and it's gonna make you feel a little bit crummy.

Really fascinating is that a paper came out just a month ago that was looking at having breakfast, what it does to your, looking at your weight overall.

Probably skipping breakfast isn't the best way to lose weight, or having breakfast probably doesn't contribute to it very much.

So there really wasn't a lot of change in weight in those things.

But for the people that did not have breakfast, they were consuming less calories during the day, but a much larger meal later on in the afternoon.

And that's not necessarily good or bad, but then they looked at the group that did have breakfast, and they saw that their blood sugar remained much more evenly distributed, much more even throughout the day.

So you can imagine that these, these little guys, these little kids that sometimes don't have a lot of reserves there, they are more likely to not have those ups and downs, that feeling of like your body is craving something again by having a breakfast.

So yeah, so a very big fan, do what works for your family, do what works for your kid, focus on protein, like that really is a thing, and try and pick a nice, healthy meal.