Dr Michael Mosley's quick check to see if you're eating the right breakfast for you
29.09.2023 - 18:29
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Dr Michael Mosley has shared a simple test that can tell you whether or not your breakfast is right for you.
The weight loss guru, who is behind the popular Fast 800 diet, discussed his healthy eating tips with food expert Prof Tim Spector, who heads up the Zoe health study, in a recent episode of his Just One Thing podcast.
Dr Mosley asked Prof Spector for his top tips on how to maximise health and wellbeing - and his second one focused on what to eat for breakfast. The epidemiologist suggested people should experiment with their breakfast choices to work out whether it is providing them with the nutrients they need or not, noting that "everyone is different" and what works for one person may not work for someone else.
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Prof Spector explained how he radically changed his diet after years of eating what he considered a healthy breakfast of tea, juice and muesli. After realising that his high-carb, high-sugar breakfast was causing his blood sugar to spike and had led to weight gain of around 10 kilos, he decided to alter the food he eats at the start of each day.
Asked how his breakfast has changed from then to now, Prof Spector explained: "When I was a healthy doctor, an epidemiologist, it will have been muesli, a cup of tea with low-fat milk in it and a glass of orange juice. I'd sometimes have toast and marmalade. It would always be brown toast, but I didn't know at that time that they are often dyed brown.
"I was eating towards what I was told at the time, as a doctor, was a healthy diet. It turns out that diet had led to me gaining about a kilo of weight over