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breakfast for busy individuals

Many studies have shown that eating breakfast regularly helps us to maintain a healthy weight and reduces the chances of over-consuming too many calories throughout the day. We all know it is the most important meal of the day, yet it is often the most neglected in terms of preparation.

As busy individuals, we often don’t have the luxury of spending 30-60mins preparing breakfast. Mornings are often spent in manic rush getting some exercise in and getting ready for work.
How can we make sure we eat a substantial breakfast?
I can recommend a few ideas, and I’ll give a concrete example on how we do it at home.
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Epidemiology Studies of Mediterranean Diet

In his famous Seven Countries Studies in 1958-1964, an American Scientist Ancel Keys observed a lower percentage of people having a Coronary Heart Disease(CHD) in the Southern Italy (Overview:The Seven Countries Study in Brief, 2013). Hence, the term Mediterranean Diet was coined to refer to the characteristic of foods eaten by the people of the Mediterranean region in the 1950’s.

The diet started to gain popularity in 1990s when Dr.Walter Willett of Harvard University’s School of Public Health introduced the “Mediterranean diet pyramid” as a “cultural model for healthy eating” (Willett et al, 1995).
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