In this video, I'll uncover the new study that states that skipping breakfast can have
a detrimental impact on your overall health. Hi ladies and gentlemen, I am Dr. Zyrowski
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In this video, we have a hot new topic. It's fresh. Fresh off the press and that is can
skipping breakfast actually kill you? There is a new study that just came out by the JACC
and it is very interesting because it's gone through the media and the media has been posting
that doing intermittent fasting is actually bad for you. This study it actually contradicts
everything that I teach on this channel. It contradicts this healthy lifestyle that I
push onto people and so basically what we have to do is to discuss it and break it down.
Because this new study found that you are going to actually die if you are practicing
intermittent fasting. From what some people are telling us. But let's go ahead and look
and look at the truth. So when we look at this study, it is done
by the JACC, basically, once again, April 16th brand new study and it was done in the
University of Iowa. Basically what they concluded in this study, let's look at conclusion, right
down here, skipping breakfast was associated with a significant increased risk of mortality
from cardiovascular disease. Our study supports the benefits of eating breakfast and promoting
cardiovascular health. Now, I actually just did a video on whether or not you should eat
breakfast. Whether you should skip it or eat it every morning. Well, they are saying right
here in this study that you are at a greater risk of mortality and cardiovascular disease.
So let's go ahead and break this down and I will put a link to this particular study
in the description below. Now when we look at this, let's look at this
skipping breakfast study, it is done by the University of Iowa. Published in the JACC.
What it involved is 6,550 American's ages 40-75 from 1988 to 1994. They have been analyzing
this data and then this is what they concluded from it. This was done via a survey, so basically
they asked people did you eat breakfast every morning? Did you eat breakfast just a couple
days a week? Did you just eat it sometimes? So basically, they went and they did this
survey asking people when they ate breakfast and then they associated all these different
health conditions to those people who had not been eating breakfast. Let's take a look.
The study findings that you have an 87 percent in increase in cardiovascular mortality. That
is really devastating statistics there is what they found. An increased risk of obesity
because it wasn't just the cardiovascular mortality that came out of this. They say
that if you also skip breakfast have increased risk of obesity. Increased cholesterol. Higher
blood pressure. Type 2 diabetes. Metabolic syndrome and an increased risk of heart disease.
So if you are just the average person and you have been told that you should do intermittent
fasting and you saw this, you are going to freak out. You are going to be like, whoa,
no way. But let's put this some practical thought into this whole thing.
First of all, what they have found is that, as well with this information, the subjects
that skipped breakfast had terrible lifestyles, okay. So this is a major factor. Because these
people weren't skipping breakfast as a way of doing intermittent fasting like some people
have associated. As a matter of fact, people were skipping breakfast just because of their
poor lifestyle in many cases. Those poor lifestyle habits included: smoking, okay how many people
who smoke get up and have a cup of coffee and a couple cigarettes before noon but don't
eat breakfast? That is not a healthy lifestyle. That is not intermittent fasting. Drinking
and also they are physically inactive and also these same people were eating very poor
quality diets. So what we have to conclude from this is that real intermittent fasting
was not practiced and that skipping breakfast does not equal intermittent fasting. And when
we look at this study, we just have to take it for what it is. These people skipped breakfast.
They were unhealthy people. They lived poor lifestyles and they ended up with a bunch
of health conditions but it has nothing to do with intermittent fasting. So we don't
want to get confused and think that we should stop intermittent fasting because we have
this great risk of doing intermittent fasting and of course mortalities. When we look at
it and we put practical thought to it, remember that skipping breakfast does not equal intermittent
fasting. This study is not a representation of intermittent fasting in any way because
people who are doing intermittent fasting are doing it to improve their health. In most
cases, they are eating right. They are following a good quality diet. They are active people.
They are doing the right things for their health. They are just not just skipping breakfast.
No time frame managed as far as when they were eating when they weren't. It is a totally
different ballgame. So don't correlate them. Now the one thing that I will say is that
intermittent fasting has tons of benefits. I am not going to dive into it in this video
because I cover it so much in other ones but what I will do is I will put a link to a video
that I did up here that is a complete guide to intermittent fasting. It tells you everything
you need to know. When you should eat. When you shouldn't eat. What breaks your fast.
All the details. The benefits like it has right here. Check that video out and will
help you improve your health drastically once again to recap on this, intermittent fasting
doesn't equal skipping breakfast. This study has no bearing on the impact or the effects
of intermittent fasting. So be sure to give this video a thumbs up. Share it with your
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