I know that this is probably something not related to politics/economics but its something that always has been boggling my mind.
Is it really that bad for the body to skip breakfast? I do it all the time before going to school since i wake up at like 7:20 and school starts 20 minutes after (i also have to walk to school which takes like 5-10 mins)..
Usually i just drink a simple glass of milk and water and then i go to school. I dont really eat a typical breat/butter/egg breakfast.
Thoughts?
Do what your body tells you. And don’t drink milk, it’s not good for you. You may find you will need to substitute something else for that glass of milk if you decide to skip it.
Clayton -
but i love milk. Why would milk be bad for you? I drink raw milk only.
I specifically meant just guzzling down a whole glass of milk.
a) Unless you are an infant or young child, you body is not designed to digest milk. In most adults (worldwide… Europeans have varying levels of adult lactose tolerance, some countries as high as 90%), the gene that allows the production of lactase (used in the digestion of milk) is switched off (lactose intolerance).
b) The hormones in milk may have an infantilizing effect… increased docility, servility, etc. I haven’t researched it much but I remember reading about this.
I do consume milk products - milk products are tasty, but they are not the same as guzzling a whole glass of milk. If I drank a whole glass of milk right now, I’d probably blow up like a balloon and burst. I can only consume milk products in moderation and with the aid of a lactase supplement.
Clayton -
Do what your body tells you. And don’t drink milk, it’s not good for you.
I see what you did there. Starkly ironic. Very clever.
Don’t drink bovine milk. I drink almond milk. Goat milk is much more similar in composition to human milk than cow milk.
You should eat in the morning. Presumably, you hadn’t eaten anything for eight hours before you woke up.
Almond milk is stretching the definition to something white that testes like animal milk. I’ve also read that the production involves not-so-great chemical processes. Or maybe it’s only for some of the non-animal milks.
Why would human or goat milk be much more healthy than cow’s milk to an adult human, given that all of them are “meant” for infants? I wouldn’t be surprised if cow’s milk were less unhealthy, as it wouldn’t have as many compounds that were active in humans (similar to how cow diseases are less transmittable to humans than diseases of animals closer to humans, or diseases from other humans).
Ill stop drinking milk then see what happens.
Alot of people do call me immature…
Is the proposed damage of drinking milk, esp. in the growing/teen age permanent?
As far as lactose tolerance, i can drink probably like 3 glasses/cheese/yogurt etc and not get sick, so thats not really a problem.
Is it really that bad for the body to skip breakfast?
Depends on where you’re going with the idea of “bad”…
It’s easy to say a nutritious breakfast is probably optimal after 8 hours of not eating. And as the next best alternative it’s probably reasonable to skip breakfast as long as you get that nutrition at another point in the day. But really, so many factors contribute to health that I wouldn’t stress about breakfast above everything else. You can imagine that someone who is mentally strained and fed and satisfied, but skips breakfast and fails to replace it daily, may end up healthier than someone who has a really stressful life and eat’s a flawless breakfast daily.
Probably the best general advice for you if you’re determined to skip breakfast is to eat nutitiously (a shit ton of water and greens daily, among other less critical but still ultimately necessary sources of nutrition), and don’t eat within like 2 hours of going to bed. And do things that make you feel fantastic because laughter and sex and massages and power etc. make the brain feel great and are associated with abundance of chemicals in the body that reduce the effects of aging and disease, and promote optimal metabolism generally.
My point is that … if that’s what it does to a large segment of the population, maybe it’s best to moderate your intake all the same.
Clayton -
Wha??
Clayton -
Don’t skip breakfast. Skip school.
Have you ever seen a non libertarian parent?
I would gladly skip school, but my parents would kill me.
I’m gonna go primal on y’all. I can’t remember the last time that I had breakfast. Why eat when you aren’t hungry; do you need to fatten up because you are going on expedition where food won’t be available for days?
Anyway, yeah, after going primal I can theoretically fast for many days. I say theoretically because something always comes along to break my fast; for example, being invited to dinner. I think my record is about 68 hours.
So, as Clayton suggest, listen to your body. If you suddenly feel like eating a cow, go for it. But don’t eat simply because it’s breakfast time.
Yea i was reading about fasting. I want to be able to have this ability.
Have you had any experience with fasting before a workout routine?
To do so, your body must have the nutrients stored in your body off which to live. So, you have to eat (primal) foods that loaded with nutrients. From there, you are burning fats AND consuming nutrients while you fast. Otherwise, you are burning fat but are depleted in nutrients, which will make you hungry. Btw, I’m assuming that you are fasting because you want to lose fat.
I don’t workout; I simply live the primal lifestyle. But yeah, I’ve gone for long walks around town while fasting and I can see that I have lost fat at the end of the day.
Fasting is also a good way to get rid of toxins in the body. Hunger goes away by about the third day.
You may want to look into converting your raw milk into kefir if you can find somebidy to give you the grains.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA - this is the only thing I like about being an adult! No more non-libertarian parents being little mini-tyrants on me all the time!
This music video always reminds me of Molyneux and his daddy issues:
Clayton -
In a way, break-fast is whatever you eat since you last ate before going to sleep.
I consistently eat a cup of oatmeal (dry amount before adding water and boiling) before anything else after I wake up. I notice that I get low blood sugar (verified with meter) a couple of hours later very reliably. Yet on those days I decide to wait several hours before eating oatmeal, I’m fine.
I’ve read that one’s body basically can be burning sugars or fats, and switches to the latter only if there haven’t been sugars for a while. Also that one can sometimes experience this shift as nausea in the morning, but that it subsides after a while. My conjecture is that those days I don’t eat oatmeal right away, my body has switched to burning fat, and explains why I can go for hours. But if I eat oatmeal, it keeps my body “dependent” on sugars, so it just throws its hands up a couple of hours later and refuses to switch to fat quickly enough.
Extended version docudrama of Stefan Molyneux’s childhood:
HAHA, poor Stefan … his daddy didn’t let him be a rock star and let out his inner twisted sister. On second thought, poor us, because now we are tormented with all these hand-wringing, gut-wrenching, soul-searching YouTube videos giving the psychiatric side of anarcho-capitalism. I would much prefer he strut around on stage in a wig and leotards and making horrendous screeching noises!!
Clayton -