A nutritious breakfast is the first step to stay healthy, says a recent study.
Teens who tend to hurry through breakfast, are exposed to greater risks of suffering from metabolic syndrome, reveals a recent Swedish study.
The researchers from Umea University, Sweden, state in their latest study that young adults, who consumed poor breakfast reported greater incidences of metabolic syndrome, 27 years later. Metabolic syndrome is a collective term used to define factors that aggravate chances of cardiovascular diseases. Metabolic syndrome encompasses health issues like abdominal obesity, increase of harmful triglycerides, decrease in protective High Density Lipoprotein, high blood pressure and glucose levels. Someone with three or more such health risks is considered to have metabolic syndrome, according to the American Heart Association.
The researchers have derived their study results from two rounds of test conducted on the participants. On the first level, all the students who were at least done with nine years of schooling, in Lulea, northern Swedish Cohort, were asked about their food habits, especially what they usually had for their breakfast.
27 years later, the same respondents had to go through health checkups to determine the symptoms of metabolic syndrome in them. The results showed that participants who did not have proper breakfasts in their teens were reported with 68 percent higher incidences of metabolic syndrome. More specifically, the respondents who did not follow a proper breakfast during their adolescence were found to be greater victims of abdominal obesity and had high blood glucose level.
The researchers have also taken into account other factors like socioeconomic status and life style habits, which might influence metabolic syndrome during the period. Further interventions are required before the findings are put into practice.
"Further studies are required for us to be able to understand the mechanisms involved in the connection between poor breakfast and metabolic syndrome, but our results and those of several previous studies suggest that a poor breakfast can have a negative effect on blood sugar regulation," said Maria Wennberg, the lead author of the study, reports medical express.
