Ben from Your Diet Advisor gives SHED the low down on tips to improve your breakfast nutrition, helping you to improve your performance and health throughout the day.

“If there is one area of someones diet that gets barely any attention to detail is breakfast. Some say its the most important meal of the day, in some ways it is, but all your meals are important, no special emphasis should be put on one meal per se. The problem with breakfast is it’s a routine meal, you tend to eat the same old thing that takes the best part of 2 minutes to prepare.

Breakfast cereals, white toast and pretty much any classic european breakfast wont do a lot for the human body. We are an organism that has developed on a fresh and wholesome diet from nature, and for 30% of your nutritional intake you give your body is something dried that appears nice and neatly from some cardboard or plastic beautifully presented with a character or slogan on the front tooting its health benefit. This is not good health.

If you could change one area of your diet today to better your health I would suggest breakfast gets the makeover. The problem most people find is in making something thats quick and convenient. My first point would be to make more time. Health takes a certain amount of planning and time, so when you have poor energy from your breakfast, only poor planning is to blame.

But still, options that are quick and wholesome could be:
1. Oat bran porridge made with full fat milk
2. Seeded wholemeal toast with a few scrambled eggs
3. Natural yogurt with fresh banana, mixed nuts and a drizzle of honey
4. Scrambled eggs, some wilted spinach and lightly fried mushrooms

If you find yourself on the run early in the morning and can’t get the breakfast you need, then an apple, banana, a small pack of nuts and half a litre of water is a great nutrition booster pack for the journey. A little bit of planning in the morning will go a long way for setting you up for the day. Your energy will thank you for it.”

Recent studies have also shown that by increasing your protein intake at breakfast by just 10% of your normal intake can have dramatic increases in energy levels and in the length of time before a meal is next required by the body. This is especially helpful if you need to gently reduce body fat levels without having to starve yourself.

If you’ve ever wondered what microwaving does to food (and your health) then check out this article from the guys at Amateur Radio Blog.

Ten reasons to throw out your microwave

I always made sure I stood well away from the microwave when it was doing it’s radiation thing but never realised there were more side affects after that...

I guess with most electrical products you buy these days they won’t come with the necessary research findings printed on the box, but at least this article is food for thought.. As long as it isn’t microwaved food of course…

And to the Dad’s with young children out there, I’d probably consider buying a steamer to heat the babies milk from now on…

Thanks to Ben from Your Diet Advisor for the article and web link