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    Four breakfast foods you must avoid to feel good all day

    Synopsis

    Your body needs more sodium than potassium in the morning so your blood pressure can go up, but eating fruit for breakfast causes your blood pressure to go down.

    By askmen.in
    Bad coffee

    Coffee can both fuel entrepreneurial ventures or constantly lead to crashes and prolonged fatigue. This is because all coffee is not the same; coffee often carries naturally occurring mold toxins. Turns out that bad reaction has nothing to do with the coffee; it is a reaction to the mold on the coffee. Now, you won’t see this mold — it’s an invisible byproduct of shortcuts coffee producers take. When you brew that first cup, avoid cheaper coffee. These cost less because they not only use lowerquality beans, but also include a higher percentage of damaged beans.

    Milk, yogurt, and cheese, but not butter

    The main problem with dairy is the harmful process of pasteurisation. While this process does reduce the small risk of milk contamination, it kills off the beneficial probiotics in the milk, denatures milk proteins, and transforms milk from a source of nutrition into a source of many health problems. In the morning, you should avoid milk and most things made from milk — cheese, yogurt, cream, buttermilk, and ice cream —but not butter. Butter is significantly healthier than the milk it is made from.

    Sugar, including fruit

    Your body needs more sodium than potassium in the morning so your blood pressure can go up, but eating fruit (which has a lot of potassium) for breakfast causes your blood pressure to go down. Low blood pressure in the morning makes it harder to feel energized and ready to face the day. Most people are familiar with the term “sugar crash,” but many don’t know where this term comes from. After you eat sugar, it’s not only your focus and energy that crashes, but also your actual blood sugar levels, too. This is the famous crash that causes brain fog, sluggishness, and food cravings.

    All grains

    Gluten-containing grains are actually addictive. If you allow your brain to get “addicted”, you’re going to experience insatiable hunger and cravings that last for days after you last ate those grains. There is plenty of research to show that eating gluten also has negative health consequences. The trick is to give it up completely. The gluten breakfast foods to avoid include cereal, toast, pancakes, and granola bars. This will increase your ability to live up to your full potential.
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