Dr Poonam Desai, an anti-aging and longevity expert has taken to TikTok, posting a video unveiling the top five breakfast foods to avoid for a healthier start to the day.
Her recent video outlines these items with a cautionary note on optimising morning nutrition, reports Surrey Live.
She states: “I’m Dr Desai and these are five unhealthy breakfast foods that we should avoid eating routinely in the morning. The first is going to be pastries – pastries include things like croissants, chocolate croissants. Second is going to be breakfast cereals. Yes breakfast cereals. It’s full of sugar usually so try to avoid breakfast cereals.
“Third is going to be granola. A lot of granola tends to have oil and sugar in it – again, little nutritional value and we don’t want to be having that high of a sugar spike first thing in the morning.
“Fourth is going to be pancakes and fifth is going to be things like doughnuts – you really want to avoid a big sugar spike first thing in the morning.”
Doctor’s five things not to have for breakfast
- Croissants
- Cereals
- Granola
- Pancakes
- Doughnuts
For those who are looking to loose weight, a breakfast like this could counteract the efforts by inducing hunger soon after breakfast.
Cereal are a highly processed food, and are flagged by nutrition experts for their high sugar content, as well as pancakes, having a high content of fat, salt and sodium.
If your worried what to have for breakfast, a nutritional scientist gave his help.
Tim Spector, Professor of Genetics and author said: “So a lot of the time, you know, I would either skip breakfast or have it late on. I’m working at home then I would probably have a breakfast or a brunch after 11. My go to breakfast is to change to full fat yoghurt 5050 with milk kefir and whichever berries I’ve got or fruit I’ve got in the fridge.
“If I haven’t, I get some frozen Berries out of the freezer and a nut and seed mix. I’ve got a really nice nut granola in the recipe book that I’m now using. I do big batches of that, and I absolutely love it. Or if I’m somewhere else, I will take my Zoe Daily 30 Sprinkle that on as well. So, making sure that breakfast, although it’s quite nice to skip it or delay it, is a really good opportunity to put those good things into your diet when you’re really in control.”
The NHS has a site dedicated to healthy breakfast recipes – which can be found here.
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