I love me some bacon (in fact, I’m starting to think I maybe need to start a separate food blog, Cupcakes & Bacon…) and I’ll eat it any time of the day — as part of brunch, a BLT for lunch, bacon explosion or spaghetti carbonara for dinner.
Research published this week, though, found that eating a high-fat meal first thing in the morning (such as bacon and fried eggs) may be the healthiest way to prep your body for the rest of the day. A bowl of cereal or a bagel on the other hand may only program your body to break down only carbs.
The study, which was published in the International Journal of Obesity, was conducted on mice and the fat-rich breakfast appears to prep your body into better preventing the development of metabolic syndrome.
April 1, 2010
Kind of like how the green tea in creme brulee cancels out the fatty, sugary aspects of it (in my mind, anyhow) there’s actual research (by that I mean it’s not just my wonky rationalization!) that shows that drinking orange juice with high-fat, high-carb meals helps make them less unhealthy.
Just published online in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, after eating a 900-calorie meal of egg and sausage muffin and hash browns, those people who drank three cups of orange juice experienced significantly less inflammatory response compared to those who drank water or a water/glucose mix (which means it could prevent heart disease and stroke). Plus, it also produced a protein in the body that disrupts insulin action (insulin action that is tied to insulin resistance, which is considered the origin of type 2 diabetes).
(and 900 calories in my favourite fast-food breakast. Whoa.)
March 22, 2010
I love me some bacon (in fact, I’m starting to think I maybe need to start a separate food blog, Cupcakes & Bacon…) and I’ll eat it any time of the day — as part of brunch, a BLT for lunch, bacon explosion or spaghetti carbonara for dinner.