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Terence Kealey. Breakfast is a Dangerous Meal: Why You Should Ditch Your Morning Meal For Health and Wellbeing
Copyright
Dedication
Prologue
Preface
PART ONE
1
My diagnosis
FIGURE 1.1. Glucose levels in healthy people who eat three typical meals a day
FIGURE 1.2A. Plasma glucose levels in type 2 diabetics who eat breakfast
FIGURE 1.2B. Plasma glucose levels in type 2 diabetics who do not eat breakfast
Box 1: Glucometers and type 2 diabetes
PART TWO
2
The glorification of breakfast
3
Breakfast in an age of commercial science
Industrially funded research: an alternative view
PART THREE
4
Myth No. 1: Breakfast cereals are healthy
Breakfast cereals and Caucasians
5
Myth No. 2: Breakfast is good for the brain
Free school breakfasts
6
Myth No. 3: Breakfast is slimming
Satiety and social eating
PART FOUR
7
Yo-yo dieting
Why do dieters return to their previous weight?
8
Chaotic lives
Daniel, the lions’ den and the earliest clinical trial
9
Five breakfast sagas
Cot deaths and neonatal blindness: compliance dangers
PART FIVE
10
The Harvard and Cambridge challenges
Why were Dr Farshchi’s subjects anomalous?
11
The heroic breakfast guerrillas
PART SIX
12
Blood glucose and breakfast: the unhealthy majority
Blood glucose levels after breakfast in type 2 diabetes
Blood glucose levels after breakfast in prediabetes and obesity
13
Blood glucose and breakfast: the healthy minority
The biochemical evidence for breakfast being a dangerous meal in healthy people
The biochemical evidence for breakfast being a safe (!) meal in healthy people
14
Why have the scientists claimed breakfast to be safe?
PART SEVEN
15
The fat saga
Fat versus carbohydrate as the major cardiac killer: some recent studies
More on the official dietary advice
Cuba
Dr David Ludwig
PART EIGHT
16
The carbohydratisation of the English-speaking breakfast
TABLE 16.1. Grams of food consumed at breakfast. US adults
TABLE 16.2. Grams of food consumed at breakfast. US children
17
Nothing about breakfast makes sense except in the light of insulin
Research success, group unhappiness
FIGURE 17.1. 24-hour pattern of insulin secretion
18
Diabesity, the big new disease
TABLE 18.1. BMI (kg/m2, i.e. weight per height squared)
Figure 18.1. Obesity and the consumption of different foods 1960–2000 USA
Controversy over BMI
19
Insulin-resistance, the modern plague
Type 2 diabetes
20
Definitions
TABLE 20.1. A blood glucose level
TABLE 20.2. Two blood glucose levels
TABLE 20.3. Fasting normal and diabetic blood glucose levels
TABLE 20.4. Normal and diabetic blood glucose levels
21
The dawn phenomenon
FIGURE 21.1. 24-hour levels of melatonin and cortisol
Figure 21.2. These are typical results from healthy young people
Some personalities
22
The biochemists have been warning us for nearly a century that breakfast is dangerous
PART NINE
23
My story, episode 2
PART TEN
24
What a modern plague looks like: the metabolic syndrome
FIGURE 24.1. A lipoprotein
Breakfast and the metabolic syndrome: three experiments
25
Can we reverse the metabolic syndrome?
26
The New Fasting Diets
Why is eating at the height of circadian rhythms healthy?
David Zinczenko’s 8-Hour Diet
27
Type 3 diabetes (and other consequences of the metabolic syndrome)
TABLE 27.1. The top ten causes of all deaths globally (annually)
TABLE 27.2. The top ten causes of death among the world’s richest nations (the numbers of deaths per 100,000 population per annum)
Height, alcohol, sirtfoods and longevity
The fascinating paradox of cholesterol and strokes
PART ELEVEN
28
So, what to eat?
What are red, white and dark meats: or why is poultry relatively safe?
29
And if you must eat breakfast?
Glycaemic index and glycaemic load
Envoi
Afterword
Footnotes. 1: My diagnosis
2: The glorification of breakfast
3: Breakfast in an age of commercial science
4: Myth No. 1: Breakfast cereals are healthy
7: Yo-yo dieting
8: Chaotic lives
9: Five breakfast sagas
10: The Harvard and Cambridge challenges
12: Blood glucose and breakfast: the unhealthy majority
14: Why have the scientists claimed breakfast to be safe?
15: The fat saga
17: Nothing about breakfast makes sense except in the light of insulin
18: Diabesity, the big new disease
20: Definitions
22: The biochemists have been warning us for nearly a century that breakfast is dangerous
24: What a modern plague looks like: the metabolic syndrome
25: Can we reverse the metabolic syndrome?
26: The New Fasting Diets
27: Type 3 diabetes (and other consequences of the metabolic syndrome)
Part Eleven
28: So, what to eat?
29: And if you must eat breakfast?
References. Prologue
1: My diagnosis
2: The glorification of breakfast
3: Breakfast in an age of commercial science
4: Myth No. 1: Breakfast cereals are healthy
5: Myth No. 2: Breakfast is good for the brain
6: Myth No. 3: Breakfast is slimming
7: Yo-yo dieting
8: Chaotic lives
9: Five breakfast sagas
10: The Harvard and Cambridge challenges
11: The heroic breakfast guerrillas
12: Blood glucose and breakfast: the unhealthy majority
13: Blood glucose and breakfast: the healthy minority
14: Why have the scientists claimed breakfast to be safe?
15: The fat saga
16: The carbohydratisation of the English-speaking breakfast
17: Nothing about breakfast makes sense except in the light of insulin
18: Diabesity, the big new disease
19: Insulin-resistance, the modern plague
20: Definitions
21: The dawn phenomenon
22: The biochemists have been warning us for nearly a century that breakfast is dangerous
23: My story, episode 2
24: What a modern plague looks like: the metabolic syndrome
25: Can we reverse the metabolic syndrome?
26: The new fasting diets
27: Type 3 diabetes (and other consequences of the metabolic syndrome)
28: So, what to eat?
29: And if you must eat breakfast?
Envoi
Afterword
Illustration credits
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Author
About the Publisher
