How Sugary Cereals & Bagels Can Make You Feel Drained for the Day Ahead
There was a time when breakfast was seen as the meal that you needed to get yourself through the day, the time to stock your body up with enough that it wouldn’t start to flag sometime before lunch.
However, many people have eschewed the healthy or energy boosting breakfast for something arguably more enjoyable, such as cereals or breads filled with refined sugar, which sadly won’t see you past the bus journey to work. It’s time we started to take breakfast back to the healthy option and allow our bodies to reap the benefits.
It’s probably obvious for most people that when we wake up in the morning, we should be putting something like fruit and porridge into our body to get us ready for the day.
Most people struggle with this, thinking they’d rather throw something more sugary or taste-heavy down their necks, not thinking about this will affect them during the day. Not only can these things weight fairly heavy on your stomach throughout the day, they can also make you crash pretty early on in your day.
The reason for this seemingly high jump in energy that will then lead to your inevitable crash is down to sucrose being digested in your intestines and them moving straight into the bloodstream from there. The body is unable to digest it in the mouth or the stomach so it’s able to pass straight into your system with relative ease, allowing you to grab an easy burst of energy, but at a price.
This price comes in the form of a fairly quick crash which you can expect to have hit you within the hour. In fact, some people believe that many people struggle with energy levels as they’re addicted to sucrose and don’t even know it. If they allow the levels of the chemical to lower in the body, we will be able to regulate our intake to a healthy point without making ourselves suffer for it in the process.
Alongside this, it means that you can bring your bodily struggles in check just by changing your daily breakfast schedule. That fruit and oatmeal could be affecting a lot more than just your daily energy levels.
Now, we should probably have a look at why these bagels and sugary cereals are making you crash and burn along with affecting your body in the long term, leading to much more serious illnesses. Due to a high level of fructose, many bodies struggle with metabolism issues in the short-term, while also leading to problems such as diabetes among many others in the long-term.
These metabolism issues not only lead to a lack of weight loss, but also affect your ability to get up and go for the negative, leading to a sluggishness and lethargy in many. This sluggishness is exactly what will drain you throughout the day.
Another option open to you in the morning that will keep you away from the bad stuff is attempting to fill yourself with some protein. Not only is this a more healthy option in general, it also helps your body fill you with enough energy to keep you going throughout the day.
It will also keep you fuller for longer, meaning you probably won’t be reaching for those snacks before your lunch or even dinner if you find yourself able to wait till you’re home before you pick up your next meal!
When you wake up in from now on, you shouldn’t be thinking about exactly what will start the party in your mouth, but what will get you out of your groggy head and straight into something productive.
Whether you go for something relatively light or start your day with a heavy meal, you need to make sure that it’s giving your body exactly what it needs to keep it going till its next meal, and ideally even beyond. Get yourself out of that routine before every day becomes a drain.
How Sodas (and Even Large Quantities of Juice) Can Lower Your Energy Levels
You’d probably agree that most people understand soda really had very little nutritional value and packs your body with a lot of stuff it really doesn’t want. That being said, I imagine there’s many people out there who don’t realize that drinking high levels of fruit juice will also affect your body negatively, even making you feel sluggish and uncomfortable which will not help your energy levels. Take a look below to see exactly what we’re talking about.
One of the major issues with soda is what it will do to your teeth. While water will help hydrate you and wash away any excess sugar on your teeth, most people struggle with this, thinking they’d rather drink something that may be bad for them but allows them something that they feel tastes a lot better, not thinking about this them.
If you’re not careful, your dentist will be telling you some fairly unpleasant news at your next check-up if you keep downing that soda.
Beyond the teeth issue, soda can be dangerous as many people believe that it will help with their energy levels due to the quick jolt it can provide them with. This quick jolt comes down to the bodies inability to digest the sucrose contained in your soda on its way to the intestines.
The mouth and the stomach struggle with it, so it’s still intact by the time it gets to your intestines where it’s able to pass unimpeded straight into your blood stream, leading to a sudden jump in energy. However, this big jolt comes as the price of an even bigger crash.
This crash will hit you within the hour, and while it may be down to the short term ingestion of high sugar levels either from your soda or your high levels of no-added sugar fruit juice, many people believe it could be deeper than that.
Some research suggests that the struggle people feel surrounding the fabled sugar crash is actually because we as humans have become too reliant on high levels of sugar. If we allowed the levels of the chemical to lower in our bodies, we could regulate the level of sugar in our body without the unpleasant reaction that is the sugar crash.
Despite all this, knowledge, many people still rely on their sugar hit to get through the day, believing that they’d rather keep the sugar high going than ever accept the crash is meant to be hitting in the first place. This can not only be incredibly unhealthy in the long run, it also means that you’ll be feeling yourself getting more and more reliant in the short term.
This will mean that your day to day energy levels will be naturally quite low without introducing your usual sugar hit, which will continue to affect your metabolism. These metabolism issues can lead to a lack of weight loss that will keep you sat down a lot more than it will get you stood up. This is just one way that it will affect your ability to get yourself out in the morning.
High levels of sugar can also lead to an unpleasant feeling of lethargy that keeps you sluggish. It’s this sluggishness that keeps you drained throughout the day and makes people realize that their use of that sugar jolt to get through the day by relying on soda and fruit juice is actually keeping them down rather than getting them up.
Hopefully you can see now how both soda and high levels of fruit juice will actually be bringing your energy levels down throughout the day. In everyone’s life it can be hard to bring balance into their diet, but you need to know that soda should really not be part of any balanced diet and a lot of fruit juice is simply too much.
If you must, try and keep soda drinking down to once a week and keep your fruit juice consumption to a small glass once every other day.
How Fruit Can Reach Your Needs Without the Use of Refined Sugars
We all know by now that a lot of sugar can be terrible for your body, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be putting some of it into your body. In fact, many argue that when it comes to sugar it’s all about the context. Hopefully you’ll see after reading below exactly what you need to be doing when it comes to reaching those correct sugar levels within your body.
Let’s start by saying that there’s definitely something to worry about when it comes to fruit, and that’s the effect it has on your teeth. Many dentists will tell you that even though you should definitely be eating fruit, you should make sure that you wash your mouth out with water and wait to brush your teeth for around an hour.
Beyond that however, there’s not much negative that you can say about fruit and what it will do to your body. As long as you don’t go crazy, your diet will usually be made better by the addition of some fruit.
However, if you do go crazy, you may find that your body doesn’t thank you for it. Beyond the obvious intestinal issues that will hit you in the short term if you overdo it on the fruit, especially anything citrus, you may be surprised to find that you’re taking in too much sugar.
While it’s certainly better than filling yourself with any of the much worse refined sugars, too much of anything is always too much!
Along with the proper amount of sugar which you’ll find yourself getting from your fruit bowl, the fruit you eat also provides you with fiber and water, which means they bring with them other positive properties. These vitamins will not only be helping your body in the long term, just as a proper amount of sugar will do, it will also help your energy levels on a day to day basis.
You’d be surprised how many people struggle with energy issues purely because they have a deficiency in some form that they have no idea about.
Now, we should probably have a look at why those refined sugars are making you crash and burn while hurting your body at the same time. Due to a high level of fructose, many bodies struggle with metabolism issues in the short-term, while also leading to problems such as diabetes among many others in the long-term.
These metabolism issues not only lead to a lack of weight loss, but also affect your ability to get up and go for the negative, leading to a sluggishness and lethargy in many.
The reason for the seemingly high jump in energy is due to sucrose passing straight into the bloodstream through the intestines. The body is unable to digest it in the mouth or the stomach so it’s able to pass straight into your system with relative ease, allowing you to grab an easy burst of energy, but at a price. This price comes in the form of a fairly quick crash which you can expect to have hit you within the hour.
In fact, some people believe that many people struggle with energy levels as they’re addicted to sucrose and don’t even know it. If they allow the levels of the chemical to lower in the body, we will be able to regulate our intake to a healthy point without making ourselves suffer for it in the process.
So, do you feel you’ve been educated on the fine level of sugar you can get just by eating a properly balanced diet that contains a lot of fruit?
You have to understand that we’re not saying live life like a monk here, as there’s always room for a little refined sugar as a treat on top of an otherwise healthy diet, but far too many people in the modern world are relying on that stuff just to get through the day.
If you follow the advice given throughout this article, you should be able to move yourself from refined sugars onto fruit in no time, safe that you’re doing yourself some bodily good.
