Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but are we doing what it takes to reap the full benefits?

Specialist Gilles Fumey, food geographer and CNRS researcher, brings us some answers and advice for a successful breakfast on Laurent Mariotte's program, "La Table des bons vivant".

Are you the type who settles for a quick cup of coffee for breakfast, cooks a three-course meal, or doesn't manage to swallow a thing when you wake up?

We all ask ourselves a billion questions around breakfast, especially because, since our childhood, it has been presented as the most important meal of the day.

Among the eating habits around this meal, there is one that has a tough tooth: having breakfast right out of bed.

A tradition not as good as that if one believes the specialist Gilles Fumey, food geographer and researcher at the CNRS in the program

 La Table des bons vivants

 by Laurent Mariotte. 

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The three hour rule

"We have a hormonal system which means that in the morning, we have a hormone, the stress hormone which helps us to wake up from our sleep during the three hours following our awakening", explains Gilles Fumey.

Result ?

During this time, the body is self-sufficient to wake up and would not need food.

The latter would even tend to interfere with the natural process of our metabolism.

Goodbye to the sacred cup of coffee and our toast.

"The ideal is, for example, if you get up at 7 am to eat at 10 am. And if possible, raw, whole and unprocessed products." 

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Eat healthy

Obviously, regardless of the time, for breakfast to be fully satisfactory, we try not to take the easy way out by taking industrial cereals and milk.

In addition to being of bad qualities, these foods have an often high sugar level which creates a feeling of lack more quickly than expected.

"So some people after having a breakfast of this type easily find themselves in hypoglycemia in the hours which follow", details Gilles Fumey.

So we avoid jumping on our closet when we get out of bed and above all, once again, we pay attention to what we consume.