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What Is A Good Breakfast?

The foods you eat for breakfast can really affect how you feel and perform throughout your morning, and there are several things that a good breakfast can do for you.

A healthy breakfast is a meal that can….

Keep you fueled up until your next meal or snack. A well-balanced breakfast should provide you with staying power. Foods with protein help to satisfy hunger, and high fiber foods help to fill you up.

Supply your body and brain with energy. In the morning, your body’s gas tank is running close to empty. When you eat the right foods for breakfast, you’re providing your muscles and brain with the fuel they need for optimal performance.

Help avoid blood sugar swings and reduce cravings. A balanced meal that contains both protein and healthy carbohydrates can provide a steady and sustained release of energy into your system, and help ward off wild swings in your blood sugar that can trigger cravings for sweets or other unhealthy foods.

Help you make better food choices throughout the day.

How Much Protein, Fat, Carbohydrates and Fiber Should Each Meal Have?

Eating a "balanced diet" is something we all know we should do. But what that looks like in any given meal can be much less obvious. Recommendations on which types of food, and in what amounts, we should be eating seem to change based on who you're talking to. That said, getting the right amount of macronutrients — including protein, carbohydrates, fiber and fat — in your daily meals is important. "Each macronutrient has a role in the body, and missing out on one affects how we function,"