Samantha Amarel from Sharjah says that while she makes an effort to make a decent breakfast for her husband and kids, they invariably end up not eating it due to lack of time. “I do make breakfast but because of the rush of the morning school bus and my husband’s office transport, it ends up not being eaten. I can see it is taking a toll on my kids as by the time they come home from school, they are drained and tired. How do I make more time for this important meal?” she asks.
Most of us are in a similar kind of rut with little or no time for this very important meal of the day. But what makes this first meal of the day just so important? To answer, Dr. Shaik Altaf Basha, Professor of Internal Medicine at GMC Hospital, explains that breakfast is considered the main meal because it serves to end the overnight fasting. “It heralds the activities of the day ahead,” he says and essentially when we consume breakfast, we replenish the energy in the form of vital calories and our water with minerals