1º ESO: HEALTHY BREAKFAST

HEALTHY BREAKFAST

breakfast; food; energy; thinking; school; fast; break; cereals; brain; eating.;

What is breakfast?

The word breakfast is really two words, 'break' and 'fast'.

-'Fast' is when you don't eat food, and all during the night you have been sleeping and not eating - unless you went on a midnight raid of the fridge! So, breakfast is when you break your fast by eating.

Why is breakfast important?

What you eat is turned into energy by your body, and you need energy for the most important activity in you life….ACTIVITIES IN THE HIGH SCHOOL.

-	If you don't eat when you first get up, then your store of energy is low, you can't think or work as well and your stomach will be waiting for food!
-	If you don´t have a GOOD breakfast you could be dizzy and tired all morning long.

Quantity balance.

You burn many calories in the high school playing sports, studying, playing with your friends in the break, so you have to eat, at least, the same number of calories you burn.

CALORIES OF ACTIVITIES = CALORIES YOU EAT

Quality balance.

You can eat carbohydrate, fats and proteins and your body needs all to be healthy.

CARBOHYDRATES                                       FATS                                            PROTEINS

THEY GIVE YOU ENERGY:              IMPORTANT FOR YOUR                      TO GROW UP AND

CEREAL                                           METABOLISM AND ENERGY                   METABOLISM

BREAD, TOASTS, BISCUITS            OLIVE OIL, BUTTER                            EGGS, MILK

FRUIT                                                FAT OF MILK                                       CHEESE     

Some breakfast ideas

WHAT DID YOU HAVE FOR BREAKFAST?

I HAD ( THE FOOD YOU ATE----TRY TO INCLUDE CARBOHYDRATES, FATS AND PROTEINS) FOR BREAKFAST    

-	toast, cereals and eggs all provide power (energy) your body needs to get through the morning.
-	Milk and other dairy products are especially good for growing bodies and healthy bones.
-	Using a blender to blend fruit and milk into a smoothie can give you a quick, easy meal with lots of goodness.

Try these ideas.

-	Cereal and milk with a piece of fruit.
-	Toast with cheese or tomato or a spread, and fruit or fruit/vegetable juice.
-	Toasted sandwich and fruit or low fat milk.
-	Toast and a smoothie (just cut up fruit like a banana and blend it with milk in the blender).

	-	Cut up fresh fruit and eat it with yoghurt, and a piece of toast.
	-	Ham-cheese  sandwich and a banana.
	-	Even last night's left-over pizza! REMEMBER: IF YOUR BREAKFAST IS LIGHT YOU CAN COMPLETE IT IN THE FIRST BREAK (10.20 TO 10:40)