破除健康教條 不是每天都要吃早餐的!

It's six in the morning and All you want is a few more minutes of sleep, instead you find yourself at the breakfast table, head hung over a bowl of cereal, trying your best not to fall into it.

早上6點，你的願望只是想再多睡幾分鐘，然而事實卻是你坐在餐桌前，無精打彩的面對着一碗麥片粥，盡力不讓自己扎進碗裏去。

You have a big exam in a few hours, your stomach is in knots and it's difficult to even keep coffee down, but your mother is hovering around with toast, juice, cereal and insisting that you eat because breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

上午你有一個重要的考試，你的腸胃因爲緊張而緊揪着，甚至連咖啡都很難喝下去，然而媽媽卻在一旁準備好了麪包、果汁、麥片，還不停的勸你吃下去，因爲早餐是一天中最重要的一頓飯。

We were always told to sit down and relax while eating, yet we grab toast or a piece of fruit while rushing out the door because we are also told we cannot miss breakfast.

我們總是被告知，吃飯時要坐下來，放鬆。然而，有時我們又抓上一塊麪包或者一片水果就衝出門去了。這還是因爲我們被告知：不能不吃早餐。

In the past, when people set off to their jobs as farmers, wood-cutters, fisherman, and iron-smiths at the first light of day, it was logical to consider breakfast the most important meal. All the work was done manually and people would travel days on end through deserts and un-inhabited places with little to no possibility of getting a meal. From farmers to soldiers to tradesmen, everybody tried to get one good meal in the morning to store enough energy for their hard, long day ahead since there were no guarantees of a mid-day meal or dinner for that matter.

在過去，農民、伐木工人、漁民以及鐵匠在拂曉時分就要開始一天的工作了，那時，將早餐看作是一天中最重要的一餐是順理成章的。所有的工作都是體力活，人們還有可能在沙漠或者荒無人煙的地方連續趕路多日，基本不可能吃到一頓像樣的飯。不管是農民、士兵還是商人，每個人都設法在早上吃頓好飯，爲他們辛苦的、漫長的一天儲備足夠的能量，因爲在那樣的情況下，中餐或者晚餐都是沒有保證的。

Now most of us have desk jobs and our workday takes us from a chair at home to one at the office and even sitting comfortably in cars or other public transportation where restaurants or cafés are every 10 steps; why do we need to stuff ourselves in the morning?

回到當今，我們大多數人都在辦公室裏工作。我們從家裏坐到辦公室，甚至舒服的坐在轎車裏或者其他的公共交通工具裏，到餐廳或者咖啡廳不過是走個幾十步的事。爲什麼非得在一早上把自己喂得飽飽的？

Today everyone, especially the cereal companies, seem to push the belief in the power of breakfast. Some believe that breakfast helps us kick-start our day, which might be true if you wake up hungry. Otherwise, where is the sense in eating without an appetite?

今天，每一個人，特別是麥片食品公司，好像都在致力於宣揚早餐非常重要的理念。有部分人認爲早餐可以幫助人們開啓精神飽滿的一天，如果你早上醒來就很餓，那麼這也許有道理，否則，早上都沒有胃口，吃早餐的意義何在？

Nutritionists say that breakfast helps us maintain a healthy body weight and assists in losing weight by jump-starting your metabolism. A good breakfast can help prevent snacking and eating large portions for lunch, but if you choose to eat healthy snacks and control meal portions, then there seems to be no direct correlation between breakfast and a healthy weight or weight-loss.

營養學家表示，早餐能幫助人們保持健康的體重，通過啓動身體的新陳代謝功能，還有助於減肥。一份高質量的早餐能防止你吃零食以及中午吃的太多，但如果你選擇吃健康的零食，並控制好每餐的份量，那麼看起來，吃不吃早餐與健康的體重以及減肥之間並沒有直接的聯繫。

Our body is intelligent enough to signal us when it needs nourishment, that's why we feel hungry and thirsty. All meals are equally important when eaten upon requirement, and not when some old fashioned doctrine pushes it down our throat.

我們的身體是足夠聰明的，當它需要營養時它會發出信號，這就是爲什麼我們會感到餓，感到渴。當根據自身的需求去進食的時候，那麼每一餐都很重要。而像老話說的那樣，把食物強塞進去，則每一餐都失去了意義。