- Jessie Inchauspe says Brits shouldn’t eat sugary breakfasts
- “The best breakfast is a hearty breakfast that is based on protein,” she said
- Ms Inchauspe says she wants to ‘ban orange juice from breakfast’
Fans of a full English breakfast or a plate of kippers in the morning may have reason to celebrate.
Apparently we should all be eating a hearty breakfast to stay healthy – and ditching sugary cereals, orange juice and toast.
This would avoid the daily ‘rollercoaster’ of sugar highs and lows, according to a leading gut health expert.
Jessie Inchauspe, a French biochemist, said Britons have been tricked into reaching for a sugary breakfast by “marketing that has lied to us for decades”.
She said she would “eradicate orange juice,” which is marketed as healthy despite typically containing about seven teaspoons of sugar per glass.
Traditional British dishes, such as kippers, are perhaps the healthiest option for breakfast
Eating savory foods keeps us full longer, preventing us from snacking to get our next sugary dose. No food is off limits, but should be eaten in the right amounts and at the right time of day, she added.
She told Randox’s Cost of Poor Nutrition conference: ‘People have been saying for a long time ‘have an orange juice in the morning, it will give you energy’, ‘breakfast should be sweet – it should be pastries and cereal’, but it’s all lies.
‘Eating a sweet breakfast was invented by the food industry just to make money, because breakfasts are very profitable.
‘The best breakfast is a hearty breakfast based on proteins. Protein is a very important thing to eat to keep you satiated, the body needs it and we don’t eat nearly enough of it.
‘For breakfast you can use the leftovers from your dinner – so maybe you had fish, vegetables and fritters – have that instead.
‘The full English breakfast is actually not that bad if you make it at home and don’t process it.’
Jessie Inchauspe says it’s advisable to replace sugary breakfast foods with savory options
The author, whose book Glucose Goddess was published in the Mail earlier this year, said a sweet breakfast leads to less circulating energy.
People then experience a sugar or glucose deficiency, which can cause fatigue and hunger and also increase appetite. Switching to something with more protein, such as egg, fat such as avocado or oily fish, and fiber from vegetables would provide the body with more stable energy and prevent a ‘crash’.
Speaking at the conference at Goodwood House in Chichester yesterday, food campaigner Dr Chris van Tulleken said sugary foods ‘interrupt our ability to say I’m full’, with breakfast cereals among the worst offenders.
It comes after groundbreaking research found Britain is facing a ‘tidal wave of harm’ from ultra-processed food, with millions of people at risk of heart problems. Research presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress found that those who eat the most mass-produced foods are 24 percent more likely to have a heart attack or stroke.