Do you have breakfast?

 

Introduction

There is nothing more important than health. “Health is above wealth”, wise people say, because you can't be good at your studies or work well if you don't take care of your health. Food is very important for your health. You should try to eat three well-balanced meals every day. Breakfast is the most important part of the beginning of a day. We take power and energy from it. Although I have breakfast very rarely I know that it is the most important part of eating.

As for me I try to take care of my health, though sometimes it is very difficult. But I have some problems with my food. I like cakes and chocolate very much. And it's difficult for me to give up the sweets. Usually I skip my breakfast. That's why I've decided to learn more new about breakfast. The purpose of my work is to learn more about use of breakfast. I wonder to know what English and Russian people have for breakfast and which breakfast habits have my classmates.

Basic Part

1. Healthy Eating

All the food are really just different forms of a few basic types of food your body need. These food types are carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. They contain ofter things your body needs – fiber, vitamins and minerals, and water.

Carbohydrates are your body's main source of energy. Foods that are high in carbohydrates include fruits, bread, cereals, rice, pasta, potatoes, peas, and beans.

Sugar in candy is also a carbohydrate, but the candy usually has no other nutrients in it. This is an important reason why it is better for you to eat a piece of fresh fruit that a candy for a snack or dessert.

Proteins are the building blocks of life. Proteins help your body to repair and replace cells, build muscle, and control many of the important chemicals reactions inside you. Good sources of proteins are fish, poultry, milk, eggs, and meat. Plants are also sources of proteins, but a single type of plant may not contain all the amino acids you need. Vegetable and grain foods combined with dairy products can give you all the amino acids.

Fats are also an important part of a healthy diet. They provide your body with chemicals called fatty acids, which your body uses for energy and growth. Fats are found in many foods, including meats, eggs, cheese, butter, margarine, and nuts.

Your body needs vitamins. Vitamin A gives you healthy eyes and skin and helps you grow. It is found in a number of foods, including liver, carrots, squash, and spinach.

Several vitamins named with letter B help your body turn food into energy, repair tissues, build muscled, and make red blood cells. Liver, pork, whole-grain cereals, dark leafy vegetables, and peanuts are some of the foods containing B vitamins.

Vitamin C gives you healthy teeth, gums, and bones. It is found in citrus fruits such as oranges and grapefruits as well as in tomatoes, strawberries, and spinach.

Vitamin D gives you strong bone. Milk is a good source for this vitamin. Your skin makes vitamin D directly from the sunlight!

Your body needs about 13 different vitamins.

The best way to be sure you get all the things your body needs is to eat at least three good, balanced meals each day, with servings from four basic food groups. And you grow strong and healthy.

The Four Basic Food Groups

Fruit and Bread, Cereals Milk and Poultry, Fish,

Vegetables and Grains Milk Meat, Eggs,

Products Nuts

apples, oranges, whole-wheat bread, milk, butter, chicken, fish, fried

peaches, pears, oatmeal rice, corn- ice-cream, peas and beans, lentil,

grapes, bananas, bread, rye bread, yogurt, cheese soybeans, pork,

fruit juice whole-grain cereals, beef, nuts, sunflower

waffles seeds

2. About Breakfast

All people in the world have breakfast, and most people eat and drink the same things for breakfast. They may different things for all the ofter meals in the day, but at breakfast time, most people have the same things to eat and drink – Tea or Coffee, Bread and Butter, Fruit.

Some people eat meat for breakfast. English people usually eat meat at breakfast time, but England is a cold country. It is bad to eat meat for breakfast in a hot country. It is bad to eat too much meat; if you eat meat for breakfast, you eat meat three times a day; and that is bad in a hot country. It is also bad to eat meat and drink tea at the same time, because tea makes meat hard so that the stomach cannot deal with it.

The best breakfast is Tea or Coffee, Bread and Butter, Fruit. That is the usual breakfast of most people in the world.

Breakfast in Britain

A traditional English breakfast is very big meal – sausages, bacon, eggs, tomatoes, mushrooms ... . But nowadays many people just have porridge or cereals with milk and sugar, or toast with marmalade, jam, or honey. Instead of porridge they may have fruit juice, or they may prefer biscuits. Marmalade and jam are not the same. Marmalade is made from oranges and jam is made from other fruit. The traditional breakfast drink is tea, which people have with cold milk. Some people have coffee, often instant coffee, which is made with just hot water. Many visitors to Britain find this coffee disgusting.

Breakfast in Russia

Today morning meal in Russia does not much differ from European. Porridge with jam, pancakes with sour cream, omelet or fried eggs, toasts have become habitual meal for us. Some people have just a cup of tea or coffee with a toast. This is usually called a “continental breakfast”. From drinks are popular tea and coffee. In the past truly Russians drank tea by their own traditional ceremony with samovar. But it's impossible to imagine our modern lifestyle without electric teapot and coffee-maker.

3. Breakfast for Children

Breakfast provides children with the energy and nutrients they need to concentrate on school work and learn. Studies show that it provides as much as ¼ of the recommended daily allowance for key nutrients, such as calcium, protein, vitamins A and B6, magnesium, iron and zinc.

Research shows that children who eat breakfast have higher achievement scores, lower rates of absence and tardiness, and increased concentration in the classroom. Another important reason to eat breakfast is that healthful habits learned early in life could stave off many adulthood health problems associated with poor diet, such as diabetes and obesity.

Ideally, you want to make a breakfast that consists of protein, fat and carbohydrate. That will prevent drops in blood sugar for several hours. A drops in blood sugar can mean a decline in energy level and the outset of hunger symptoms like a stomachache or headache, which interfere with learning. Balanced meals offering foods from several food groups (containing carbohydrate, protein and fat) are designed to sustain children's energy throughout the morning.

If breakfast is rushed in the morning, eating something is still better than eating nothing. So, if a child eats a banana or piece of string cheese on the way to school, that's better than them starting the day on an empty stomach.

Breakfast that include foods from several food groups provide the most benefit to children, both educationally and physically. Simple breakfast that can be prepared quickly and easily include:

- Juice and cereal with milk,

- Toast with peanut butter and a piece of fruit,

- A fruit smoothie made with yogurt,

- A hard-coved egg and a bagel,

- A cereal bar or a piece of fresh fruit and string cheese are great portable breakfast ,

- Leftovers can be breakfast too-soup and crackers, tortillas with melted cheese or chicken drumsticks can all work in a pinch!

We all feel better when we are getting the nutrition our bodies need, and a great way to jump into your day is by starting off with a healthy breakfast.

To know children's opinion about breakfast,we asked 50 teenagers from our school about their habits.

Here are their answers.

The most of them have breakfast obviously. It's a good index. Their parents also have a good habit to do breakfast. May be that's why our teenagers have breakfast too. They follow their parents.

But we can see they eat too little vegetables and fruit. So their nutrition is not adequate and wholesome. I'd recommend them to correct their diet by doing it more healthy and useful.