Breakfast Around the World

Worldwide, people take breakfast as an opportunity to break bread and fuel up for the day ahead. It turns out that the old adage about breakfast being the most important meal of the day may actually ring true for our overall health and well-being. Breaking your daily fast with a morning meal results in effects on your body that differ from other meals eaten throughout the day. Every time you eat, your glucose, or blood sugar levels, rise, signalling an increase in the production of insulin. Insulin guides glucose to the cells in the body where it’s used for energy. Eating something after waking up has been shown to make a positive difference on your glucose and insulin levels for the day. Regularly skipping a morning meal may result in overeating throughout the rest of the day, causing greater fluctuating glucose levels, and over the long term, it may lead to serious conditions such as diabetes. Eating a healthy breakfast might also help kick-start cognitive functions like memory, attention span, reasoning, creativity, comprehension, and verbal communication skills that help you navigate your world. With all that breakfast has going for it, take inspiration from the following international breakfast recipes and get cracking. Your breakfast-fuelled day awaits.