BREAKFAST FOR CYCLIST AND...

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Cycling is the most beautiful passion for those who loves it. But cycling requires discipline. Cyclists fascinate us for their perfect bodies, for strength and speed.

The body is very important to attend a sport. Cycling requires a strong and wiry body that needs care and consistency in training and diet.

A good breakfast is important to start the day. There’s nothing worse than leaving house with an empty stomach, or, at worse, after drinking just a coffee that stimulates the production of gastric juices which will work in an empty stomach.

Good nutrition is useful for body and mind. What do we have to eat in order to feel good?

Food industry offers a great variety of products, several inviting and fragrant snacks. But how much are they useful for a real good breakfast?

Food science teaches us that we need a bit of everything in order to keep us healthy. But we are strongly conditioned by fast, we risk to eat more fat and sugar than we are allowed even though we are convinced that snacks are nutrient and light. But do we know how light a snack is? When we prepare a homemade cake we reckon the quantity of sugar and fat we need to make sweets be fragrant, soft, tasty. The great confectionery use to add more fat and sugar to make their products tastier, but they don’t really care of our real food needs.

But it’s also true that big brands are adapting at requests of World Health Organization that aims a watchful eye on them. Sometimes a breakfast with cappuccino and briosh is ok, the important is not to make a daily habit with it.

Maybe we have lost the taste in an old way breakfast, bread and jam, fresh fruit, yogurt, milk or tea with biscuits or rusks. It’s right to know how useful is eating wholemeal bread, natural yogurt, (we can find very tasty yogurts at supermarket), that can be also made at home, organic jams also without sugar, (they are delicious), biscuits and fresh fruit

The fructose, the sugar naturally contained in fruit, is one of the essential nutrients that grant the right energy. It’s a simple sugar, quickly assimilated and used by the body, it gives energy in a few minutes after assimilation.

Bread is instead composed by complex sugar that is more slowly assimilated. In spite of sugar we have honey, particularly acacia honey. it's a very good sweetener, it can help to burn fat and doesn't raise your blood sugar.

During trip we always have a break. A coffe and a snack. There are very taste snacks, those cereal and fruit bars, better if they’re of whole-grain. And what about dried fruit? Delicious, nutrient and full of mineral salts.

Something important for line’s fans. Please have always breakfast! If you think that don’t have breakfast makes you lose weight, I’m sorry, you have a wrong thought. Breakfast gives you important nutrients (they’re very important in the morning, especially for brain, it consumes a lot of glucose). Our body adabtes itself to this habit, our metabolism slows (our body is not used to waste anything, even the energy). When we eat next time, large part of nutrients will be accumulated, because of slow metabolism and because of this new habit of our body that learns to put aside that precious dose of nutrients which have finally come.

Please listen, who doesn’t have breakfast risks to increase by 2 or 3 kg per year. This is a study by Minnesota Univerity. Breakfast also helps not to nibble before lunch.