Before You Eat Breakfast, Watch This! - Avoid These Foods To Live Longer | Jessie Inchauspé

The key takeaways are: 1. **Blood Sugar Spikes from Oats**: Oats, a common breakfast food, are high in starch and can cause significant blood sugar spikes when consumed alone. 2. **Enhancing Oatmeal**: To make oatmeal healthier and reduce blood sugar impact, it's recommended to add protein, fat, and fiber, such as nut butter, protein powder, or eggs. 3. **Savory Breakfasts Over Sweet**: A savory breakfast built around proteins (like eggs, fish, nuts, tofu, or dinner leftovers) is preferable to sweet breakfasts for maintaining steady glucose levels. 4. **Avoid Sweet Foods in the Morning**: Sweet foods, including fruit juices, jams, and sweet cereals, should be avoided in the morning to prevent blood sugar spikes. 5. **Healthy Choices for Busy Lifestyles**: For those with busy lifestyles, preparing healthy breakfast options in advance or choosing savory over sweet options at coffee shops can help maintain a balanced diet. 6. **Cultural Influence on Breakfast Choices**: The shift towards sweetened cereals and juices for breakfast in many cultures is largely due to marketing strategies by food companies, moving away from traditional, balanced meals. 7. **Impact of Plant Milks on Blood Sugar**: Plant milks made from starches like oats and rice can cause glucose spikes. Almond or coconut milk are better alternatives. 8. **Physical Activity for Blood Sugar Control**: Engaging in simple physical activities, such as walking or calf raises, after meals can help in managing blood sugar levels by aiding muscle glucose absorption. 9. **Evolutionary Role of Muscle Use**: The soleus muscle in the calf is particularly efficient at using glucose, likely due to its evolutionary role in walking and survival activities.

Among other things, I left teaching public school and took my kids with me because of the unhealthy food and sugar addiction culture my students were living in. It was visible. So many were wired or sleepy, hangry, living on sugar all day. They couldn't concentrate, and some had pretty serious behavioral issues after coming back from the midmorning break -- the school had concession tables filled with junk for the students to buy. My kids are grown and married now, and they are super fit and wonderful cooks -- real food is the norm. Reall food and home cooked (not perfect) meals was their childhood from 1st grade til they left for college. It made such a difference in their ability to learn well.

Damn, so Raw Oats, Cinnamon and blueberries is unhealthy?? If so, I'm sick of this world and all the contradictions.

The most safe breakfast is just to not eat any breakfast and let your stomach rest until it's 12 o clock.

I make my own granola in the oven (oats, sunflower- and pumpkinseeds, crushed nuts and a bit of coconut). I add some raisins, flaxseed and yoghurt. Oats are known to lower cholesterol. So not all bad. And I eat my breakfast 14hours after dinner. An easy way of intermittent fasting. This really works for me.

I follow Dr Neal Barnard's stance on oats (he's an expert in diabetes). Organic oats are rich in soluble fibre and remove cholesterol from the body. The more intact the grain, the lower the GI so yes, I wouldn't have 'instant' oats but there's nothing wrong with organic, whole grain oats. Top your oats with some protein powder mixed into the water (or a plant based milk like almond) and lots of cinnamon. The latter also helps stabilise blood sugars. Follow up with a walk (the dog or walk to work, or park a few blocks away from the office) and your blood sugars will be just fine. Frankly, better than the ham croissant that Jessie recommends.

Oats are often sprayed with glyphosate before harvesting to dessicate them.

Thanks alot

My father always used to eat leftover dinner as breakfast

I dont eat sweet food in morning. I have vegetables and a protein and a healthy carbohydrate. Keeps me full until my next, and therefore last meal.

I never take bfast but not hungry at all eat at 1pm with veggie and fish and dessert jelly ! Dinner just soup I think you should experiment in each individuals.

For breakfast , i put 1 tbspn of Psyllium husks and 1 tbspn Flaxseed meal in a bowl 🥣 mix it with water, little almond milk and cinnamon and stir in a dollop of plain yogurt sprinkle some seeds and nuts on top. This is my breakfast now. (Very filling but make sure you are close to a toilet 🚽 as too much psyllium husks can have an effect) I used to eat oats everyday for breakfast not realising how high carb it was. I used to eat rice cakes too with tahini not realising how high glycemic rice cakes were.

I eat oates with berrys, soya milk, cinimon, chia for breakfast and i feel good, no gravings for 6 hours..sometimes savory, sometimes, oats..

Oats are a low glycemic high fiber food. So I'm not sure what she's talking about? Maybe the packets of instant oats w/ added sugar?

I eat porridge for breakfast every day, powers me through a long swim, a 6 mile cycle to work and an hour in the gym at lunchtime, i do not experience the lack of energy or the cravings for sugar described here. I am the ideal weight for my height and very physically fit.

There is a difference, isn't there, in oats that have been cooked and eaten warm, versus oats that have been used in granola that has been roasted in the oven and then eaten cold? There is something called resistance starch, and eating oats cold seems to be in the resistant starch category?

I have found if I have protein for breakfast it just keeps me full much longer. Do what works for you if you love oats, eat them

I eat organic whole Greek yoghurt with flaxseeds, cocoa powder, lionsmane powder, cinnamon, and then honey and berries for taste

Whole oats can be cooked with some oat bran and be kept overnight in the refrigerator.

I think sweet breakfast might be a cultural thing. Living in two Latin American countries for many years, I hardly ever had anything sweet for breakfast and, over there, most grown ups will have eggs, nopales (cactus), salsa, whole corn tortillas, beans, and the like.