Benefits Of Waking Up Early: Waking up early gives one enough time to make and have a healthy breakfast. It stabilises overall metabolic functions and gives a great head start for the day, keeping one active.
Benefits Of Waking Up Early: It is our habits that define us. Usually, when you wake up, you experience an urge to eat or drink something. During the nighttime, our body rests and rejuvenates while being in a fast mode, this means that when you wake up, it is important to eat something healthy to break the body’s night fast. The gap of 7-8 hours makes the body nutrient deficit, making it crucial to have a healthy and nutritious breakfast. Have you ever experienced a situation when you wake up late and binge on unhealthy foods? Does waking up early in the morning enhance healthy eating habits within us?
To explore this, Jagran English spoke to Dr Dilip Gude, Senior Consultant Physician, Yashoda Hospitals Hyderabad who explained how waking habits influence your eating habits.
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According to Dr Gude, waking up early gives one enough time to make and have a healthy breakfast. It stabilises overall metabolic functions and gives a great head start for the day, keeping one active. Waking up late may cause undue stress, hormonal imbalances and blood sugar fluctuations. Early risers are known to have better sleep hygiene and quality of sleep which means it can also help insomniacs.
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The circadian rhythm which is a day/night sleep-wake rhythm in the body governed by pineal gland, melatonin secretion and other stress hormonal regulation is at its best when woken up early. Early risers also get a boost to exercise adequately apart from getting to have a healthy, elaborate breakfast. To reach work as well one gets to beat the peak rush hour traffic and beat the domino effect of late risers and their stress to be on time cascading over all work and other stresses. There is more ‘me-time’ where one can channel, concentrate and accentuate their inner energies.
How Waking Up Early Enhances Healthy Eating Habits In Individuals (Image Credits: Canva)
Studies have shown that overall early risers tend to be happier and thus may help beat depression/anxiety and other mood disorders. There is also a lesser incidence of chronic diseases such as hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, obesity and other metabolic disorders in early risers. Memory, concentration, judgement and other mental skills also tend to be better in early risers.
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Immunity is also known to be better along with s*x drive as shown in some studies. Under eye bags, dark circles seem to be lesser in early risers along with healthier skin. The digestive system is also known to benefit from waking up early and irritable bowel syndromes, acid peptic disorders etc tend to improve when one tends to rise early.
Late risers tend to rush through having unhealthy, fast-food kinds of breakfasts, and or may actually skip breakfast altogether which in the long term can accumulate into rising chronic disease risk.
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