Skipping Breakfast May Compromise the Immune System
While we’ve all heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, a new study suggests it’s even more important than you think. In fact, skipping breakfast could…
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(Photo by Deb Lindsey for The Washington Post via Getty Images).While we've all heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, a new study suggests it's even more important than you think. In fact, skipping breakfast could end up killing you.
Researchers at Mount Sinai have found that skipping breakfast can be detrimental to fighting off infection and increase the risk of heart disease. That's because hunger triggers a response in the brain that has a negative effect on immune cells, according to the study's findings.
"There is a growing awareness that fasting is healthy, and there is indeed abundant evidence for the benefits of fasting," says lead researcher Filip Swirski. "Our study provides a word of caution as it suggests that there may also be a cost to fasting that carries a health risk. The study shows that there is a conversation between the nervous and immune systems."
