It has been found that irregular diet and unreasonable collocation are one of the risk factors affecting the occurrence and death of cancer. A study published in Cancer Causes&Control adds new evidence to the health hazards of skipping breakfast. The study found that skipping breakfast was associated with an increased risk of all-cause death and cancer-specific death from cancer compared with people who ate breakfast every day.
Study shows that teenagers who often do not eat breakfast during the development period, which is easy to reduce blood sugar in the body, and can not supply consumption to the brain. They may have palpitations, sweats, shaking hands, dizziness, fatigue, lack of concentration, fatigue, slow reaction and other symptoms. Even if hypoglycemia is relieved in time, it will also cause certain damage to brain cells, which is not conducive to physical health. People who don’t eat breakfast tend to be slow and inefficient. If you don’t eat in time, the blood sugar level in your body will drop, and your body will feel tired, irritable, irritable and listless. It affects people’s work and study. Besides, skipping breakfast is easy to cause cholesterol increase in the body. Some studies show that people who does not eat breakfast often have 33% higher cholesterol than those who eat breakfast. In the long run, it is easy to cause cardio-cerebrovascular disease. In addition, skipping breakfast is easy to cause cholesterol increase in the body. Some studies show that people who skip breakfast often have 33% higher cholesterol than those who eat breakfast, and it is easy to cause cardio-cerebrovascular disease.
Researchers found through the survey that most people who do not eat breakfast also have bad living habits such as smoking, drinking, lack of exercise, so they are more prone to obesity, and the total cholesterol level in the blood is also higher. Ultimately, people who skip breakfast have 1.87, 1.59, and 3.39 times the risk of death from cardiovascular disease, heart disease, and stroke, respectively, compared to those who eat breakfast every day. Other Researchers from Texas Tech University analyzed the data of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) from 1988-1994, involving 7007 subjects with an average age of 55.4 years, 54.4% were women. Through the questionnaire, the researchers collected the age, sex, race, education, marital status, alcohol consumption, smoking status and physical activity of the subjects, and measured the height, waist circumference, weight, blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol level of the subjects. At the same time, the diet information of the subjects was also counted, including the consumption of different foods, total energy intake and the frequency of eating breakfast, and the diet quality of the subjects was scored. The higher the score, the healthier the diet. According to the frequency of breakfast, the researchers divided the subjects into three groups: daily breakfast group, sometimes breakfast group (only some days or weekends), and rarely or never breakfast group. Statistics showed that 61% of the subjects ate breakfast every day; 23% of the subjects sometimes eat breakfast; 16% of the subjects seldom or never eat breakfast. Compared with the subjects who eat breakfast every day, the subjects who seldom or never eat breakfast tend to be young, smoking, obese, lack of exercise and have higher total cholesterol levels. The total energy intake of subjects who ate breakfast every day was similar to that of subjects who rarely or never ate breakfast, but in the latter diet, the proportion of energy from protein and carbohydrate was lower, and the proportion of energy from monosaturated fat, saturated fat and total fat was higher. In general, the subjects who seldom or never eat breakfast have lower scores of food quality than those who eat breakfast every day, which means their diet is relatively unhealthy.
During an average follow-up period of 22 years, 3573 deaths occurred, 795 of which were related to cancer. After adjusting for other factors, the researchers found that the risk of all-cause death and cancer death was significantly higher in subjects who ate breakfast sometimes or rarely. Compared with subjects who eat breakfast every day, subjects who did not eat breakfast every day (including sometimes eating breakfast and rarely or never eating breakfast) were associated with a 60% higher risk of all-cause death and a 59% higher risk of cancer death. Specifically, compared with the subjects who ate breakfast every day, sometimes eating breakfast was associated with an increased risk of all-cause and cancer death by 52% and 65% respectively; Little or no breakfast was associated with an increased risk of all-cause and cancer death by 69% and 52%, respectively. Because this study is an observational study, it only shows the impact of different frequencies of eating breakfast on the risk of death, and does not show a causal relationship. There are also limitations in the study, such as the dependence of dietary information on the recall of subjects, and the failure to consider lunch or dinner habits, which may also affect the study results. In addition, it is still unclear which biological mechanism affects the risk of death through the different frequencies of breakfast, and further exploration is needed.
The study concluded that skipping breakfast was associated with an increased risk of all-cause and cancer-related deaths. This study provides evidence that eating breakfast regularly is beneficial to reducing the risk of all-cause and cancer death. Dr. Marji McCullough, director of epidemiology research at the American Cancer Society (ACS), commented that people are very interested in the potential role of meal time, including the impact of skipping breakfast on metabolism, weight gain and health outcomes. The results of this study should be carefully interpreted. Before reaching the conclusion , more research is needed to show that eating breakfast will reduce the risk of cancer death and all-cause death, because people who don’t eat breakfast are more likely to have other unhealthy lifestyle, which will also increase the risk of cancer. We should still pay attention to the problem of skip eating breakfast, keep alert and pay attention to its correlation with the risk of death from cancer.
