Health Tips: 5 Consequences of Skipping Meal

Have you a busy schedule which leads you to your meal skipping? Or skipping a meal to quickly lose weight? Unfortunately, there are many serious side effects of skipping meals than any probable benefit.

Here’s a look at some of the serious side effects of skipping a meal:

• Weight Gain Instead of Weight Loss

Weight gain is the major unexpected consequence of skipping meals instead of any reduction in weight. While you skip a meal, your metabolism has no work to break down any food inside your body. Hence it slows down. And on the next day, it is easier for you to overeat due to hunger. The calorie intake amount increases at a slow metabolism rate to back up the body to its original level, which results in a serious weight gain that is difficult or even impossible to lose.

• Diabetes

Eating a large meal after skipping meal causes changes to the metabolic system. There is also a delay in insulin release over a long time period after eating which results in diabetes.

• Ketosis

The other consequence of skipping meal includes Ketosis which starts when you consistently skip meals and do not intake enough food for the body to manage. It gives birth to numerous problems like fatigue, nausea, low blood pressure, etc. A pregnant woman skipping meal causes potential harm to her unborn baby.

• Hunger

After skipping meals, your body starts making you long for foods of various types such as a candy bar, doughnut or similar high calorie and high sugar snacks. These high calorie foods have little nutritional value and your body leads to more cravings which further leads to many serious health problems such as weight gain etc.

• Brain Function

If you eat regularly, you get better mental acuity, better learning power, good memory, improved work performance, more stamina & strength. Skipping meals leads to brain fuel drain.

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