Scientific breakfast will help you reduce your risk of diabetes

For decades, experts have recommended breakfast to be the most important meal of the day.

Recently researchers from Singapore Clinical Nutrition Research Center (CNRC) have demonstrated: The foods you eat at breakfast regulate blood sugar.

The CNRC study found that people with a GI - Glycaemic index on low breakfast and afternoon snacks had significantly lower blood sugar levels throughout the day. Research shows that when participants are provided with a standard lunch and eat whatever they like for dinner, the items they eat at breakfast make the metabolic reaction from food very different. .

Professor Jeyakumar Henry, director of the CNRC and one of the study participants, said: "What you eat for breakfast will cause your daily glucose response to fluctuate with a lower margin."

What you eat at breakfast will cause your daily glucose response to fluctuate with a lower margin.

Researchers offer two possible explanations for this.First, low-GI breakfast people can feel full and eat less at lunch. The second possibility is called " the effect of the second meal", when a low GI meal reduces the glucose response to later meals.

Results The study published last year in the Journal of Endocrinology and Clinical Studies also found that breakfast with a low GI can help reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a condition caused by high blood sugar.

During the two-day trial, 11 male participants ate a low or high GI breakfast and an afternoon snack, a regular lunch and were free to eat what they liked for dinner. Low-GI meals include cereal bread and white basmati rice while high-GI meals include white bread and sticky rice. Each participant wore a monitor to check blood glucose continuously every 5 minutes within 48 hours. A week later, they continued to undergo a similar test, but people with low GI intake switched to high-GI meals. As a result, people with low GI breakfast had significantly lower blood sugar levels.

High blood sugar puts pressure on the pancreas, which produces insulin to transfer sugar to muscles, where they are converted into energy. Over time, the pancreas will lose its function and gradually lose its ability to regulate sugar, which will lead to diabetes. High blood sugar also significantly increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, blindness, kidney disease,

Singapore is one of the developed countries with the highest number of people with diabetes, 1 in 4 people with diabetes or at risk of diabetes.