AdamG94
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Basically that article has a large number of facts taken way out of context. For instance in your quote, fight or flight reaction to stress is mostly down to genetic inheritance of behaviour (before anyone pipes in with genes don't effect our behaviour, please read 'The Selfish Gene') and applies to the Evolutionary Stable Strategy (ESS) of a species. Which is an expressed behavioural strategy, which is stable and resists invasion from other strategies. The article you quoted however uses fight or flight stress pressure out of context, applying the biochemical response to threat or stress to waking up and not being able to eat. What the article is implying is that your body is automatically responding to an absent threat when you wake up, preparing you for the possibility of a threat through biochemical reactions. Which in theory is perfectly plausible that those reactions are taking place due to a threat, however on that line of thought, it would be reasonable to assume that logically we should function that way all the time, correct? Being in a state of hyper-awareness all the time must be beneficial, well it is arguable that when we wake up, we are simply respiring from stored energy, like when we sleep, until we find a food source, not responding to immediate threat. As responding to threat also generates many other biochemical reactions in the body, all of which they fail to mention due to the incompatibility with their theory. It would actually be significantly more relevant to refer to the circadian rhythm here as it relates to production of hormones during different points of the 24 hour cycle. One of the reasons for your morning woodÖwen;9952319 said:
A lot of research suggests that actually breakfast should consist of a large amount of protein and polysaccharide sugars (carbs), which then leads to a slower release of sugars.
Another point, which is relevant to this thread is that if you don't have a drink while eating your meal, you will stave off hunger for much longer. This is because the fluid you consume with your meal will stretch the stomach more than if you drank no fluid at all, added to the fact that fluid is taken from the stomach before solids, this leaves you feeling hungry as the overall volume of nutrients in your stomach has decreased while your stomach stays the same size, triggering a hunger signal. A way around this is blending your food and adding water, or drinking either an hour before or after your meal. A BIG NOTE: the above point is not dietary advice, just a scientific observation of bodily function and how hunger can be suppressed.
Also to note, if you eat an hour or so before going to bed, you wake up much less aware and alert than if you hadn't. Hopefully that was helpful, it's difficult to go into too much more detail without it becoming an essay and touching on biological processes that are confusing without sufficient prior knowledge.
